From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E2=80=9CRaw?= =?iso-8859-1?Q?=E2=80=9D?= string literals for elisp Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:17 -0400 Message-ID: References: <87v92ft9z6.fsf@db48x.net> <87o885tyle.fsf@db48x.net> <83k0it6lu5.fsf@gnu.org> <87k0isu7hz.fsf_-_@db48x.net> <87a6jotszy.fsf@db48x.net> <875yuctout.fsf@db48x.net> <87wnmrs8lq.fsf@db48x.net> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="39668"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" Cc: acm@muc.de, eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Daniel Brooks Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Wed Oct 06 22:58:37 2021 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDzp-000A6r-47 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 22:58:37 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40294 helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDzn-0007tm-Mt for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane-mx.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:58:35 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]:38954) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDve-0004Gk-Ag for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:18 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::e]:42144) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDvd-0002Vg-Ly; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1mYDvd-0005SY-G4; Wed, 06 Oct 2021 16:54:17 -0400 In-Reply-To: <87wnmrs8lq.fsf@db48x.net> (message from Daniel Brooks on Tue, 05 Oct 2021 10:08:01 -0700) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.23 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.devel:276455 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Ah, I think I understand what you are getting at. You are asking why raw > strings should use ｢｣? On a Linux console, that shows as two diamonds followed by a question mark. That's no good for special syntactic delimiters. Indeed, to use non-ASCII characters for such jobs would be a radical change. In things like this, we must play safe. -- Dr Richard Stallman (https://stallman.org) Chief GNUisance of the GNU Project (https://gnu.org) Founder, Free Software Foundation (https://fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)