From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: AIDA Shinra Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Feature request: multibyte user-full-name Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:12:29 +0900 Message-ID: References: <871wx47j2v.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <4417C647.9080407@swipnet.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.6 - "Maruoka") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1142748791 13398 80.91.229.2 (19 Mar 2006 06:13:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 19 Mar 2006 06:13:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Mar 19 07:13:07 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKrA1-00086j-BF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 07:13:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKrA0-0005Ge-Mw for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:13:04 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKr9k-0005GY-Kd for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:12:48 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FKr9j-0005GM-5U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FKr9i-0005GJ-VU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:12:47 -0500 Original-Received: from [203.141.155.228] (helo=mx-old.j10n.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1FKrEz-0003Hk-50 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 19 Mar 2006 01:18:13 -0500 Original-Received: from korea.j10n.org.j10n.org (korea.j10n.org [IPv6:2002:cb8d:9be4:1:203:93ff:feef:5060]) (authenticated bits=0) by mx-old.j10n.org (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id k2J6CU6c033709 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NO); Sun, 19 Mar 2006 15:12:36 +0900 (JST) (envelope-from shinra@j10n.org) Original-To: "Jan D." In-Reply-To: <4417C647.9080407@swipnet.se> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.12.2 (99 Luftballons) SEMI/1.14.6 (Maruoka) FLIM/1.14.7 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Sanj=F2?=) APEL/10.6 MULE XEmacs/21.4 (patch 17) (Jumbo Shrimp) (powerpc-apple-darwin7.8.0) 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:51848 Archived-At: > > > I think it's pretty likely that people who start *now* to added non-ASCII > > chars in Gecos fields do it with utf-8. As for those who've been doing it > > for a while already with something else than utf-8: well, Emacs-21 read that > > as unibyte and it was good enough that (almost) nobody complained, so > > why change? > > I've had non-ASCII (ISO-8859-1 actually) characters in my gecos field for at > least 10 years, but then again, I'm used to programs not working with anything > but ASCII, so I haven't complained :-) Now I support Handa's proposal. It will work in most real sites.