From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:07 +0900 Message-ID: References: <20091118191258.GA2676@muc.de> <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> Reply-To: Miles Bader NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258620634 31476 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 08:50:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:50:34 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Alan Mackenzie Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 09:50:26 2009 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 1NB2if-00089g-Pq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:50:26 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38941 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB2if-0000rx-7A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB2iY-0000r4-JI for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:18 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB2iT-0000pS-AZ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51055 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB2iT-0000pK-0v for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:13 -0500 Original-Received: from tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp ([202.32.8.206]:35711) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NB2iQ-00038i-Mi; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 03:50:11 -0500 Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.46]) by tyo202.gate.nec.co.jp (8.13.8/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nAJ8o72k018694; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:07 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: from relay11.aps.necel.com ([10.29.19.24] [10.29.19.24]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:07 +0900 Original-Received: from dhlpc061 ([10.114.113.45] [10.114.113.45]) by relay11.aps.necel.com with ESMTP; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:07 +0900 Original-Received: by dhlpc061 (Postfix, from userid 31295) id 5099D52E1FA; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 17:50:07 +0900 (JST) System-Type: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu Blat: Foop In-Reply-To: <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> (Alan Mackenzie's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:20:40 +0000") Original-Lines: 12 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 8 (1) 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:117239 Archived-At: Alan Mackenzie writes: > Why do we have both unibyte and multibyte? Is there any reason > not to remove unibyte altogether (though obviously not for 23.2). For certain rare cases, it's useful for efficiency reasons, but maybe it should never be the default. -Miles -- Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the Goverment from running amok by hamstringing it.