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: charprop.el and uni-*.el Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:15:35 +0000 Message-ID: <47B163B7.6030601@gnu.org> References: <47B01DFB.5050905@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202807757 9845 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2008 09:15:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2008 09:15:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 12 10:16:19 2008 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 1JOrFO-00016L-Ih for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 10:16:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOrEv-00074Z-3W for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:45 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOrEr-00073P-Qj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:41 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JOrEq-00070K-2E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:41 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JOrEp-0006zy-Se for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:39 -0500 Original-Received: from mk-outboundfilter-4.mail.uk.tiscali.com ([212.74.114.32]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JOrEp-0000eB-Nm for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Feb 2008 04:15:39 -0500 Original-X-Trace: 4655742/mk-outboundfilter-2.mail.uk.tiscali.com/F2S/$ACCEPTED/freedom2Surf-customers/83.67.23.108 X-SBRS: None X-RemoteIP: 83.67.23.108 X-IP-MAIL-FROM: jasonr@gnu.org X-IP-BHB: Once X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgAAAN/ysEdTQxds/2dsb2JhbAAIq0s X-IP-Direction: OUT Original-Received: from i-83-67-23-108.freedom2surf.net (HELO [127.0.0.1]) ([83.67.23.108]) by smtp.f2s.tiscali.co.uk with ESMTP/TLS/DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA; 12 Feb 2008 09:15:38 +0000 User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.9 (Windows/20071031) In-Reply-To: X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:88846 Archived-At: Kenichi Handa wrote: > In article <47B01DFB.5050905@gnu.org>, Jason Rumney writes: > > >> Should the uni-*.el files be checked in as binary? They don't appear to >> be utf-8 as the coding tag at the bottom claims. >> > > No, they encode (a kind of) binary data using Unicode > character codes. I used that format to minimize the file > sizes. > Binary data is still binary data after it has been utf-8 encoded. And wouldn't encoding it make the file size bigger, as now all bytes with values in the 128-255 range take up two bytes instead of one?