From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Unicode support for the MS Windows clipboard Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:35:55 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <9681-Thu27May2004100522+0300-eliz@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1090871652 11698 80.91.224.253 (26 Jul 2004 19:54:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 19:54:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Kenichi Handa , Stefan Monnier , emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 26 21:54:05 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1BpBXx-0003Eb-00 for ; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:54:05 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBb0-0000GC-ML for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:57:14 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBar-0000E6-UN for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:57:06 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBar-0000Cx-3K for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1BpBar-0000CE-0P for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: from [194.106.33.237] (helo=outmail.freedom2surf.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1BpBXB-0007BS-2X; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:53:17 -0400 Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net (i-195-137-77-250.freedom2surf.net [195.137.77.250]) by outmail.freedom2surf.net (8.12.10/8.12.10) with ESMTP id i6QJZwnF032766; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:35:58 +0100 Original-Received: from TONKOTSU-RAMEN (tonkotsu-ramen.jasonrumney.net [10.0.0.28]) by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 70AAEDDD4B; Mon, 26 Jul 2004 20:35:58 +0100 (BST) Original-To: Benjamin Riefenstahl In-Reply-To: (Benjamin Riefenstahl's message of "Mon, 26 Jul 2004 21:17:13 +0200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.110002 (No Gnus v0.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) 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: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:25991 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:25991 Benjamin Riefenstahl writes: >> Somebody suggested to automatically map all Unicode coding-systems >> to the right one, utf-16le-dos. > > The uncertainty about the right Unicode coding-system to use seems to > me to be a general problem with the naming of the Unicode > coding-systems, not with w32select.c. My point was that users shouldn't have to know the differences between little-endian and big-endian and with/without signatures just to use the Windows clipboard. No matter what we call those coding systems, users will still need intimate knowledge of Unicode to know what they mean.