From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: UCS-2BE Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:09:30 +0100 Message-ID: <44F6A74A.9040708@gnu.org> References: <878xl5x4lr.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1157015446 1874 80.91.229.2 (31 Aug 2006 09:10:46 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 31 Aug 2006 09:10:46 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 31 11:10:45 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIiZ9-0001RM-Ip for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 11:10:27 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIiZ9-0000ns-1K for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:10:27 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIiYp-0000mY-OP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GIiYo-0000mJ-Kq for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:10:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GIiYo-0000mG-Bu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:10:06 -0400 Original-Received: from [213.86.207.50] (helo=exchange.integrasp.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1GIiiO-0004n3-QJ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 05:20:00 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.168.111.61] (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by exchange.integrasp.com with SMTP (Microsoft Exchange Internet Mail Service Version 5.5.2653.13) id RT1SSJ6Y; Thu, 31 Aug 2006 10:00:59 +0100 Original-Received: from 192.168.111.61 ([192.168.111.61] helo=[192.168.111.61]) by ASSP-nospam; 31 Aug 2006 10:00:58 +0100 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-GB; rv:1.8.0.4) Gecko/20060516 Thunderbird/1.5.0.4 Mnenhy/0.7.4.666 Original-To: Juri Linkov In-Reply-To: <878xl5x4lr.fsf@jurta.org> 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:59150 Archived-At: Juri Linkov wrote: > Maybe I'm missing it, but I don't see the coding UCS-2BE supported > by Emacs (e.g. in a list of `describe-coding-system'). Is this true? > If yes, why not to support it? > > Can Emacs (22) represent any of the characters that exist in UTF-16 but not UCS-2? If not, then it can just be an alias.