From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stefan Monnier" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49 Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200301271321.h0RDLri30273@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <200301261406.h0QE6lNi020126@stubby.bodenonline.com> <6480-Sun26Jan2003191815+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1043680396 30086 80.91.224.249 (27 Jan 2003 15:13:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 15:13:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: jan.h.d@swipnet.se Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 18dAwk-0007p6-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:13:14 +0100 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 18dB10-0005Dh-00 for ; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 16:17:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18d9uD-0000iQ-02 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 09:06:33 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18d9Ed-0002nX-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:23:35 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 18d9Dn-0002aL-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:23:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 18d9DS-0002Tg-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:22:23 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.11.6/8.11.6) id h0RDLri30273; Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: "Eli Zaretskii" Original-cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:11129 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:11129 > > That sounds like a good idea. But is it OK to put in Latin-1 characters > > in the alias? I see that all other aliases uses ASCII only. > > You can put Latin-1 characters there, but please make sure to save > authors.el in iso-2022-7bit encoding, and add a suitable coding: > cookie on its first line. I'd recommend we use utf-8 for it. It's a much more widely recognized standard. If we end up needing to insert chars that Emacs doesn't know how to en/decode to/from utf-8 we can switch to iso-2022-7bit, but until that happens, I think utf-8 is preferable. Stefan