From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:58:29 +0300 Message-ID: <837gus87my.fsf@gnu.org> References: <552e854a-1277-4170-b315-55458d69d622@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com> <2521d9c6-8d4d-4b88-8a42-1a78f425233c@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1340852327 21500 80.91.229.3 (28 Jun 2012 02:58:47 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 28 Jun 2012 02:58:47 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Jun 28 04:58:46 2012 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4wQ-0007mI-HK for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 04:58:46 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:53681 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4wQ-0000QI-84 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:58:46 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:34398) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4wM-0000Q8-2C for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:58:43 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4wK-0006FD-0O for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:58:41 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout20.012.net.il ([80.179.55.166]:35012) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Sk4wJ-0006Eo-P6 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Jun 2012 22:58:39 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout20.012.net.il by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0M6B0020048EFX00@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:58:14 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.210.75]) by a-mtaout20.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0M6B0029X492FS10@a-mtaout20.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 28 Jun 2012 05:58:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-Received-From: 80.179.55.166 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:85549 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 21:07:07 -0400 > > > that's interesting. What's some examples? e.g. What chars in emacs's > > encoding that's different from utf-8 encoding? I've been wondering why > > it needs to be a superset. > > The most obvious unavoidable ones are the chars that represent bytes. Yes, and then there are CJK characters that are not unified with their Unicode codepoints, for historical and cultural reasons. There's more detailed description in the ELisp manual, node "Text Representations".