From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Chetan Pandya Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness? Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:35:49 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <61559.12488.qm@web83208.mail.mud.yahoo.com> Reply-To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1232732192 1851 80.91.229.12 (23 Jan 2009 17:36:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 Jan 2009 17:36:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 23 18:37:45 2009 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 1LQPy4-0000jw-OJ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 18:37:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:50872 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQPwn-00052S-7q for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:36:01 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQPwi-00050V-7j for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:35:56 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LQPwf-0004zD-SA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:35:54 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39935 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LQPwf-0004zA-LU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: from web83208.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([216.252.101.64]:47618) by monty-python.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LQPwf-0000jn-8q for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 12:35:53 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail 13271 invoked by uid 60001); 23 Jan 2009 17:35:49 -0000 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=s1024; d=sbcglobal.net; h=X-YMail-OSG:Received:X-Mailer:Date:From:Reply-To:Subject:To:MIME-Version:Content-Type:Message-ID; b=W5037lkvLoXLaONC/3bovu1QqLBGaKEF0ogfRSuKVaqCZg+rpYAesoBk5L36PcRqQe+oYcgG1f0fUqiLRblEz+nJQMEHpr9S9IRvJxL3TnMj94QKIB90VyafkCZkiAWP/wPzydgUMxi4HSNVhQbR3L4Gx/1Idq3u4XF2uaWpHCo=; X-YMail-OSG: Qml_w7YVM1nRCz2T0wg_tH2FocCp05PBL6COzoJ2yJ6ne3s.hzfKddEOXrTYs.43tUYZ7z9xO_W.eRwL8GGasgcbgVdFgwro27hHbd5O1sDKrFTdMNFFI_X8a6f0zD7rIaW20NAmVsNtfnWWCQq_k63iNM6YFxN70mZC0rWMzI3Y9EsoBJBiY0.7z0hY Original-Received: from [75.36.178.29] by web83208.mail.mud.yahoo.com via HTTP; Fri, 23 Jan 2009 09:35:49 PST X-Mailer: YahooMailWebService/0.7.260.1 X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: FreeBSD 6.x (1) 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:108156 Archived-At: It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if there any reason to continue with that feature? Chetan