From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO Date: Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:53:58 -0400 Message-ID: References: <83sh7qxb5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87po2t6gdm.fsf@gmx.de> <83muxxyijl.fsf@gnu.org> <87efj96aly.fsf@gmx.de> <83in8lxceo.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524451943 9496 195.159.176.226 (23 Apr 2018 02:52:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 23 Apr 2018 02:52:23 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Apr 23 04:52:19 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fARaU-0002Jj-So for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:52:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:59030 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fARcW-0006Va-LT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:54:24 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58729) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fARcN-0006UA-GB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:54:17 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fARcK-00042t-Do for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:54:15 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=36787 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fARcK-00041v-6I for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 22 Apr 2018 22:54:12 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fARaA-00025R-N1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 23 Apr 2018 04:51:58 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 12 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:4auQX+GC5U34R6M7dg131vpm0d4= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224792 Archived-At: > UTF-8 cannot encode language-specific differences of a given > character, that is something that is against the basic principle of > Unicode: that each character has one and only one encoding. But along the way they discovered that it's sometimes difficult to decide whether two "things" should be consider as one and the same character or not. They ended up with a set of "rules" to make those decisions, but it's not nearly as simple as "each character has one and only one encoding". Stefan