From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: raw-byte and char-table Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:01:40 +0200 Message-ID: References: <83eidoogkc.fsf@gnu.org> <8362z0ndke.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1282780914 1226 80.91.229.12 (26 Aug 2010 00:01:54 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 26 Aug 2010 00:01:54 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 26 02:01:52 2010 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 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoPui-0003jb-55 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:01:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:59621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoPuh-0007TP-Mu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:01:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35949 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OoPub-0007TK-L6 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:01:46 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoPua-00030i-Hs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:01:45 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp21.services.sfr.fr ([93.17.128.3]:22965) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OoPuZ-00030N-9v; Wed, 25 Aug 2010 20:01:43 -0400 Original-Received: from filter.sfr.fr (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by msfrf2113.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 7C8807000088; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:01:41 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (97.92.71-86.rev.gaoland.net [86.71.92.97]) by msfrf2113.sfr.fr (SMTP Server) with ESMTP id 5B0E47000086; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:01:41 +0200 (CEST) X-SFR-UUID: 20100826000141373.5B0E47000086@msfrf2113.sfr.fr Original-Received: by fmsmemgm.homelinux.net (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EBEE3BE573; Thu, 26 Aug 2010 02:01:40 +0200 (CEST) In-Reply-To: (Kenichi Handa's message of "Wed, 25 Aug 2010 13:05:43 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/24.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:129232 Archived-At: >> Why not recommended? We already document in the ELisp manual the >> codepoints to which we map eight-bit bytes. It's not a secret, it's >> in the open. > Number like #x3FFFA0 is so criptic. The function name > unibyte-char-to-multibyte is also not ideal, but I think > it's better than #x3FFFA0. We could provide a ?\NNN (or similar) notation for it. Similarly to what we do for those bytes in multibyte strings. Stefan