From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Cut buffers and character encoding Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:33 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87y7qldq6h.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <45537D3A.5080400@swipnet.se> <87mz70730i.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> <45542D63.5070402@swipnet.se> <87irhn1kvk.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1163308511 25049 80.91.229.2 (12 Nov 2006 05:15:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Nov 2006 05:15:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: romain@orebokech.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 12 06:15:06 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7gO-0003Jf-QD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 06:15:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7gO-0001j2-7M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:15:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fv-0001b5-AX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:35 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fu-0001ab-Cx for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Gj7fu-0001aU-6Z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1Gj7fu-0006WZ-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1Gj7ft-0000j7-Gf; Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:33 -0500 Original-To: Kenichi Handa In-reply-to: (message from Kenichi Handa on Sat, 11 Nov 2006 21:40:32 +0900) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:62095 Archived-At: I think tring locale-coding-system at first, and if that yields undecoded eight-bit characters, decoding by iso-8859-1 is good. That is not a good idea. locale-coding-system is set based on the locale, and people set their locales for general reasons, not specifically about Emacs. It would be undesirable to choose nonstandard behavior for cut buffers merely because someone normally uses latin-2, for instance. It is ok to have a feature to specify nonstandard encoding of cut-buffers, but it should be a specific feature, which affects nothing else, and which people will enable only when they specifically want nonstandard encoding of cut-buffers.