From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:24:08 +0100 Organization: Organization?!? Message-ID: References: <20050325180531.GB16586@dionysus.ucolick.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111836757 6959 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 11:32:37 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:32:37 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 12:32:36 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9Wd-0004MR-KC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 12:32:19 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF9mI-0003jV-OZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 06:48:31 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!newsmi-us.news.garr.it!newsmi-eu.news.garr.it!NewsITBone-GARR!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 33 Original-X-Trace: individual.net d86ATEHy0QF5AZ74p2YJ6AFrz2/xWwgzjl76SxldOAaoRUejhb X-Face: 2FEFf>]>q>2iw=B6, xrUubRI>pR&Ml9=ao@P@i)L:\urd*t9M~y1^:+Y]'C0~{mAl`oQuAl \!3KEIp?*w`|bL5qr,H)LFO6Q=qx~iH4DN; i"; /yuIsqbLLCh/!U#X[S~(5eZ41to5f%E@'ELIi$t^ Vc\LWP@J5p^rst0+('>Er0=^1{]M9!p?&:\z]|;&=NP3AhB!B_bi^]Pfkw User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:DzD0fw5gDJ6DiOPzW/ufra8MJq4= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:129630 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:25181 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25181 GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) writes: >>>>>> "JC" == Joe Corneli writes: > > JC> Eg. the first time \pi turns into a greek > JC> symbol, > > I disagree with the whole argument except for having some > documentation that tells you how to replace an old behaviour if you > don't like the new. > > But US-ASCII bound people should consider that there are a few > squared meters of the world where people has alphabets that includes > characters that did not took place in the holy 94 set. Well, so what? Input encodings are not switched on by default, so there is no reason to defend what is not a reality. > They use them in their everyday life. TeX has grown and understands > them. It's fair that Emacs handles them the right way But it does not do so without being asked, and that is good. > P.S. > I hope that nobody will consider stop emacs-bidi development as a > good way to fight middle east terrorists... Mossad could get upset. Well, emacs-bidi is not exactly very active or visible. Luckily, in Hebrew my name דוד is palindromic, so it does not affect me too much. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum