From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:57:59 +0200 (IST) Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032411716 20554 127.0.0.1 (19 Sep 2002 05:01:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 05:01:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17rtRr-0005LO-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:01:55 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 17ru6U-0000an-00 for ; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 07:43:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rtS6-0001A6-00; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:02:10 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17rtQp-0000zk-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17rtQi-0000yy-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:00:51 -0400 Original-Received: from is.elta.co.il ([199.203.121.2]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17rtQi-0000yp-00; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 01:00:44 -0400 Original-Received: from is (is [199.203.121.2]) by is.elta.co.il (8.9.3/8.8.8) with SMTP id GAA28059; Thu, 19 Sep 2002 06:58:00 +0200 (IST) X-Sender: eliz@is Original-To: Richard Stallman In-Reply-To: Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8001 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8001 On Fri, 6 Sep 2002, Richard Stallman wrote: > In other words, running `diff' on > the original and the edited files will not show any changes in those line > you didn't modify. However, unification means that `diff' _will_ > sometimes show differences in unedited portions of the file, because C2 > was recoded into a different codepoint. > > Given that we are using unicode and unification, > isn't this inevitable? Perhaps it is; but it's something that might surprise (to put it mildly) users. We should probably document this in some prominent place, unless we are going to take care of it.