From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Rmail changes for Emacs 22 Date: 21 Oct 2002 16:31:53 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035214584 25083 80.91.224.249 (21 Oct 2002 15:36:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 15:36:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183ebO-0006WD-00 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 17:36:22 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 183fVK-0004GD-00 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 18:34:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183eYL-0004u1-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:33:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183eXK-00044B-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:32:10 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 183eX9-0003Y1-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:32:04 -0400 Original-Received: from albion.dl.ac.uk ([148.79.80.39]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 183eX5-0003Jo-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 11:31:55 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 183eX4-0002jP-00; Mon, 21 Oct 2002 16:31:54 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org Original-Lines: 21 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.2 Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:8620 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:8620 Richard Stallman writes: > > Does Emacs 22 mean the Unicode Emacs? > > Yes. Is that not a policy decision? > > It has not been decided yet. I'm pretty sure that was said, or I wouldn't have taken it for granted. Perhaps you could make that decision now. Code exists on that basis, e.g. to distinguish byte-compiled files in old and new internal encodings, and it would be a significant problem if there wasn't a new major version number reflecting the change in representation. By the way, I realized that rmail should actually use emacs-mule (not no-conversion or raw-text, whichever it was). See NEWS: Therefore, Lisp programs that read files which contain the internal MULE encoding should use `emacs-mule-unix'. `no-conversion' is only appropriate for reading truly binary files.