From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8 Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 22:07:52 +0800 Message-ID: <4C694638.6000006@gnu.org> References: <4C693A73.1060200@gnu.org> <87fwyen0ch.fsf@jidanni.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: dough.gmane.org 1281969555 10944 80.91.229.12 (16 Aug 2010 14:39:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 14:39:15 +0000 (UTC) Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org To: jidanni@jidanni.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Aug 16 16:39:13 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Ol0qF-0006WS-AM for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; 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c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:message-id:date:from:user-agent:mime-version:to:cc:subject :references:in-reply-to:content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=BvAS0MBCNVE6sX2P7llWNjOIyJZJzQSRHZ2IKMfJCkDM2WqTng4rsrAMDwYPFytZNs strR67wu0SvlYRCCHlH/N9KYd3IOt0dVXTHofAKlYWgCObx049vdv7eigcKfXfwJiW97 lHDNbOV02J5z0oxrGT0bbdrgg0L3BBSN8rozE= Original-Received: by 10.142.194.15 with SMTP id r15mr4606519wff.31.1281967682637; Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:08:02 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from [192.168.249.101] ([202.87.221.130]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 23sm8367741wfa.22.2010.08.16.07.08.00 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Mon, 16 Aug 2010 07:08:01 -0700 (PDT) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100802 Thunderbird/3.1.2 In-Reply-To: <87fwyen0ch.fsf@jidanni.org> X-BeenThere: debbugs-submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.11 Precedence: list Resent-Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 10:08:01 -0400 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org List-Id: "Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:39536 Archived-At: On 16/8/2010 9:39 PM, jidanni@jidanni.org wrote: > Well anyway, for our locale me and my friends all use zh_TW.UTF-8 and > stopped using zh_TW.big5 years ago. So at least it looks very dumb there > in mule-cmds.el that the zh_CN people can use UTF-8, but the HK and TW > are locked in the dark ages: > > ("zh_HK" . "Chinese-Big5") > ("zh_TW" . "Chinese-Big5") > ("zh_CN.UTF-8" . "Chinese-GBK") > ("zh_CN" . "Chinese-GB") GBK is a backwards compatible extension of GB with more characters. I'm not sure that Big5 has an equivalent. In all these cases, the character set is used to select preferences for fonts, input methods and other language sensitive things, and has nothing to do with UTF-8 (which is used as a preference for file encoding when specified).