From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Cc: romain@orebokech.com, jan.h.d@swipnet.se, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Cut buffers and character encoding
Date: Sat, 18 Nov 2006 11:23:15 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1GlFrP-00088L-00@etlken> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E1Gj7ft-0000j7-Gf@fencepost.gnu.org> (message from Richard Stallman on Sun, 12 Nov 2006 00:14:33 -0500)
In article <E1Gj7ft-0000j7-Gf@fencepost.gnu.org>, Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
> 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.
Then, I think it is quite natural to allow people to use
next-selection-coding-system by C-x RET X for such a
purpose. That variable is not scrictly specific to
cut-buffer, but it's a just one time setting, and doesn't
affect the further cut&paste operation.
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-11-18 2:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-11-09 7:39 Cut buffers and character encoding Romain Francoise
2006-11-09 19:10 ` Jan D.
2006-11-09 20:56 ` Romain Francoise
2006-11-10 7:42 ` Jan D.
2006-11-10 10:24 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-11-10 13:39 ` Romain Francoise
2006-11-11 12:40 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-11-12 5:14 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-18 2:23 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2006-11-18 13:18 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-20 3:23 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-11-20 7:44 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-20 7:57 ` Katsumi Yamaoka
2006-11-20 23:58 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-21 12:47 ` Jan Djärv
2006-11-18 16:05 ` Richard Stallman
2006-11-10 18:41 ` Richard Stallman
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