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: X-coding-system incompatibility, and workaround Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:43 -0500 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1194758519 24816 80.91.229.12 (11 Nov 2007 05:21:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 11 Nov 2007 05:21:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: timh@insightful.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Nov 11 06:22:03 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1Ir5Gk-0000vf-Rp for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 06:22:03 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ir5GY-0008N6-EV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:50 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ir5GU-0008Le-Tg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:46 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Ir5GT-0008J8-5B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:46 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Ir5GT-0008Is-1u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:45 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([140.186.70.10]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ir5GS-0001Yp-Pb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:44 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Ir5GR-0002PB-MG; Sun, 11 Nov 2007 00:21:43 -0500 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 10 Nov 2007 13:25:06 +0200) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:82929 Archived-At: I don't see how this can be solved: as Emacs is developed, support for new encodings is added to it, and it doesn't make sense to limit such development for a marginal situation such as this one (sharing the same mail file between two different versions of Emacs). I agree. However, the old version of Rmail fails in a rather nasty way when it encounters the unknown coding system. Maybe it could fail more gently. Of course, we cannot fix the old version, but we could fix the version in Emacs 22.2 (if it still has the same problem) so it will fail more gently with future new coding systems. Would someone please look at this, then ack?