Re: 8859 unification and Emacs' ChangeLog files

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

In article <848yuy3xab.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de>, kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
> I've learned the hard way that unify-8859-on-decoding-mode mangles
> Emacs' ChangeLog files.  Now Simon (see Cc) has shown me that it is
> possible to turn unification off for certain encodings.

> Do you think it might be good to turn it off for iso-2022-7bit?
[...]
> Simon's Lisp was: (coding-system-put 'iso-2022-7bit
> 'translation-table-for-decode (make-translation-table))

Yes, it works because it overrides the translation table
created by unify-8859-on-decoding-mode.

But, it results in that a Latin-2 char read by iso-2022-7bit
is different from what read by iso-latin-2.  I don't think
such a change is a good idea.

> Maybe that would make it possible to turn unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
> on by default?

It will stop unibyte<->multibyte automatic conversion in any
single byte lang. env. (e.g. Latin-X, Greek) except for
Latin-1.

I think unify-8859-on-decoding-mode is still only for those
people who knows the consequence of the command well.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org