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: What exactly is chinese-big5? Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 18:52:16 +0300 Message-ID: References: <4808A3FF.1060305@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208603052 6358 80.91.229.12 (19 Apr 2008 11:04:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Apr 2008 11:04:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 19 13:04:48 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1Jmstq-0000SP-HX for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 17:53:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JmstB-0000Bn-La for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:37 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmst7-0000Bi-Vp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmst6-0000BW-Rj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Jmst6-0000BT-PH for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1Jmst1-0005vG-2l; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 11:52:27 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([83.130.246.94]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0JZJ00IPG3ELAS70@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Fri, 18 Apr 2008 19:06:32 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <4808A3FF.1060305@gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:95445 Archived-At: > Date: Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:37:03 +0100 > From: Jason Rumney > CC: Kenichi Handa , emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > In Emacs 22, cp936 could be a good approximation to GBK, right? > > > > Does Emacs 22 have an independant implementation of cp936, or is it just > an alias for gb2312? You are right, it's an alias of gb2312. And in Emacs 23, it's an alias of gbk. > I defined some aliases like this (against protests from Dave Love), so > that we could initialise the locale-coding-system on Windows based on > the system codepage, without needing a mapping alist to select the > closest approximation when Emacs did not have full support for the > codepage. Dave's protest was that it would cause confusion to claim > support for codepages where that support was incomplete, while my point > of view was that limited support is better than none at all. I have no objections to these aliases, especially since the confusion is there anyway, given the lack of documentation for the precise ranges of codepoints supported by big5 and others, as mentioned in this thread by Handa-san.