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: 8859 unification and Emacs' ChangeLog files Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:38:58 -0500 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <200304031838.h33IcwBH003180@rum.cs.yale.edu> References: <848yuy3xab.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <200303310045.JAA14857@etlken.m17n.org> <8465pvo793.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1049395371 12358 80.91.224.249 (3 Apr 2003 18:42:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 18:42:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 03 20:42:50 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1919eu-00038Y-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:41:56 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 1919gb-0007Aw-00 for ; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 20:43:41 +0200 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 1919e0-0007J4-00 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:41:00 -0500 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 1919dZ-0007I6-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:40:33 -0500 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 1919dY-0007Ho-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:40:32 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu ([128.36.229.169]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.10.13) id 1919c4-0006vG-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 03 Apr 2003 13:39:00 -0500 Original-Received: from rum.cs.yale.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8) with ESMTP id h33Icwx6003182; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:38:58 -0500 Original-Received: (from monnier@localhost) by rum.cs.yale.edu (8.12.8/8.12.8/Submit) id h33IcwBH003180; Thu, 3 Apr 2003 13:38:58 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 Original-To: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) 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:12875 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:12875 > I know that unify-8859-on-decoding-mode is harmful for Emacs' > ChangeLog files, because they distinguish between the various > iso-8859 charsets. I know it changes the byte-representation of locations that you didn't intend to change, but in what way is it harmful, really ? > But if all Emacs developers enable unify-8859-on-decoding-mode, then > this is not a problem anymore. Or the ChangeLog files could be > stored as UTF-8. If the UTF-8 support is good enough, we should do that. Stefan