From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:09:23 +0200 Message-ID: References: <61559.12488.qm@web83208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232737812 22432 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 19:10:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 19:10:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 20:11:25 2009 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 4.50) id 1LQRQj-0002Ca-Cc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 20:11:01 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33045 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRPR-0002Uj-Ss for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:09:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRPM-0002RC-Ty for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRPM-0002Oa-1M for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:09:36 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=49202 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQRPL-0002OI-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:60625) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQRPL-0002U2-Ac for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 14:09:35 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KDX00100UJ8WK00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:09:49 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.6.113]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KDX008DKUK3DNO0@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 21:09:49 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: <61559.12488.qm@web83208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:108162 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:35:49 -0800 (PST) > From: Chetan Pandya > > It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if there any reason to continue with that feature? What unexpected things does it do?