From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: GianUberto.Lauri@eng.it (Gian Uberto Lauri) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is Emacs becoming Word? Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:55:01 +0100 Message-ID: <16965.12661.700062.963115@mail.eng.it> References: <20050325180531.GB16586@dionysus.ucolick.org> Reply-To: saint@eng.it NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-2022-jp Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1111832280 29955 80.91.229.2 (26 Mar 2005 10:18:00 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:18:00 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Mar 26 11:17:59 2005 Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF8Ma-0006zV-3p for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 11:17:52 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF8cF-0007yq-43 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:34:03 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF8Vz-0007YI-J3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:27:36 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DF8Vs-0007Xb-46 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:27:30 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DF8Ts-0007AH-5B for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 05:25:25 -0500 Original-Received: from [213.205.33.44] (helo=mail-relay-4.tiscali.it) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DF80Z-0000bB-6G for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 04:55:07 -0500 Original-Received: from cyrano (217.133.20.189) by mail-relay-4.tiscali.it (7.1.021.3) id 4202035700745BDA; Sat, 26 Mar 2005 10:55:05 +0100 Original-To: Joe Corneli In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.18 under Emacs 21.3.50.1 X-attribution: CC X-Zippy: Is a tattoo real, like a curb or a battleship? Or are we suffering in Safeway? 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:25178 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:25178 >>>>> "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. Some of these people speak an almost unknown language that uses strange gliphs as ,Aq(B yust to tell one. I think is called something like Sponish, Spunish... Maybe Spanish. I never recall the exact name. ,A!(BCarramba! A few more, a smaller number indeed, uses $,1'@(B even when it does'nt mean 3.1415... When they typeset with TeX they don't use \pi, that's true, but all of the above include some weird psycopatic that uses Emacs to read and write her/his e-mail, and it's a good thing they can clearly read the messages their receive. Any one of the nations in the Banana Union has its special characters. They use them in their everyday life. TeX has grown and understands them. It's fair that Emacs handles them the right way and I love the True One Editor when it does it. -- /\ ___ /___/\__|_|\_|__|___Gian Uberto Lauri_____________________ //--\ | | \| | Integralista GNUslamico \/ e coltivatore diretto di software 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.