Re: MML charset tag regression

[Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk>]

"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:

> The support for extended segments was implemented as an extension of
> ctext to avoid a thorough rewrite of the ctext en/decoder.  As you
> know, the ctext encoder and decoder are variants of the iso-2022
> en/decoder and are handled by the same code (in C).

I don't see what this has to do with what I said.  The ctext coding
system needs to support extended segments because they are part of the
specification, not an extension of it as the code either says or
implies.  What was implemented is a different coding system, not an
extended version of ctext.  Also, the relevant specification is not
ICCCM, it's CTEXT, and it seems difficult to argue the case for other
people implementing that spec properly if it looks as though the Emacs
version is in ignorance of it.

> The general idea of the current implementation (using post-read and
> pre-write conversions) was also suggested by Handa-san.

I don't know what that's meant to imply, but I doubt it's fair to
blame him for problems with it.