From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: i18n search/replace with input methods latin-4-postfix and rfc1345 Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:43:11 -0500 Organization: Bell Sympatico Message-ID: <877jk8kxtt.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> References: <113a21a5lr8si80@corp.supernews.com> <87psy273pq.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <113bjhicl5eajb2@corp.supernews.com> <87ll8omz87.fsf-monnier+gnu.emacs.help@gnu.org> <113eunqf35gtlf1@corp.supernews.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1110949169 11701 80.91.229.2 (16 Mar 2005 04:59:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 16 Mar 2005 04:59:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 16 05:59:29 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBQcv-0006Kb-35 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 05:59:25 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DBQsw-0000zX-9X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 16 Mar 2005 00:15:58 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!postnews.google.com!news3.google.com!news.glorb.com!border1.nntp.dca.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nf3.bellglobal.com!nf1.bellglobal.com!nf2.bellglobal.com!news20.bellglobal.com.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:UFoSOkKyrr09gHnZ71FP8FdcMGs= Original-Lines: 34 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 67.71.27.21 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@sympatico.ca Original-X-Trace: news20.bellglobal.com 1110948191 67.71.27.21 (Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:43:11 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 15 Mar 2005 23:43:11 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129304 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org X-MailScanner-To: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:24857 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:24857 >> > (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1) >> >> Good. >> >> > '(unify-8859-on-encoding-mode t nil (ucs-tables)) >> >> Good as well. Except that the two do the same thing redundantly, so > it's >> better to get rid of one of them. I.e. if you like to configure your > system >> with Custom, then keep the second, else keep the first. > They shouldn't do the same thing since one is for decoding and the other > for encoding. Oops, sorry, I wasn't careful enough. > Anyway I think I'll stick with Custom since it's probably the less error > prone method. Apparently unify on encoding is safe but the other one can > cause information loss. Indeed, but only in "unusual" situations (e.g. if you use encodings like iso-2022). And in your case, unification on decoding is exactly what you need (provided you're not bumping into a bug that prevents it from doing its job, of course). > I am using the NT build and am not comfortable compiling from source. I > have cygwin running under MS win but have never tried to build anything > with gcc. I think cygwin has a precompiled cygwin version of the CVS code. Stefan