From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ulrich Mueller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Displaying bytes (was: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen.) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:40:32 +0100 Message-ID: <19212.50000.813691.415803@a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de> References: <20091119155848.GB1314@muc.de> <87aayiihe9.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <20091119180848.GE1314@muc.de> <47325.130.55.118.19.1258658705.squirrel@webmail.lanl.gov> <20091119212550.GG1314@muc.de> <87my2ign8u.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <912155b0911231334s2b52e8eq864251c9aed386b3@mail.gmail.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1259127680 15952 80.91.229.12 (25 Nov 2009 05:41:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 25 Nov 2009 05:41:20 +0000 (UTC) Cc: per.starback@gmail.com, dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 25 06:41:12 2009 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 1NDAcq-0003il-Eq for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:41:12 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50837 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDAcp-0001cy-PD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:41:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDAcg-0001by-M5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:41:02 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NDAcb-0001WJ-Ey for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:41:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=36281 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NDAcb-0001WD-AS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:40:57 -0500 Original-Received: from a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de ([134.93.134.1]:52990) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NDAcV-0003n0-Fz; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 00:40:51 -0500 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de [134.93.134.92]) by a1iwww1.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.0/8.13.4) with ESMTP id nAP5eXfG022739; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:40:34 +0100 Original-Received: from a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.2) with ESMTP id nAP5eXAS029369; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:40:33 +0100 Original-Received: (from ulm@localhost) by a1i15.kph.uni-mainz.de (8.14.3/8.14.3/Submit) id nAP5eWwI029366; Wed, 25 Nov 2009 06:40:32 +0100 In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12 under 23.1.1 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 1) 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:117732 Archived-At: >>>>> On Wed, 25 Nov 2009, Kenichi Handa wrote: >> If so, should we change the default priorities? > I'm not sure. As it seems that windows-1252 is a superset of > iso-8859-1, it may be ok to give windows-1252 the higher priority. Please don't. I wonder why one would even *think* of changing Emacs's default to a Microsoft proprietary "code page". :-( > How do iso-8859-1 users think? Seems to me that use of iso-8859-* is much more widespread on *nix systems. I think the current default priorities are perfectly fine. Ulrich