From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:57:20 +0300 Message-ID: <83eghkfde7.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150921165211.20434.28114@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83fv27mt7r.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpvfix7i.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv23hr0z.fsf@gnu.org> <5605CB6B.4000102@cs.ucla.edu> <83twqhhf0g.fsf@gnu.org> <5606AC48.7090801@cs.ucla.edu> <83zj09fbzp.fsf@gnu.org> <5606C140.6090309@cs.ucla.edu> <878u7trwlb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <5606E995.2000102@cs.ucla.edu> <83si61ezxd.fsf@gnu.org> <2FCA0DAD-831B-4B0A-B948-9F31DE52B6F0@gmail.com> <87twqgrgtv.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> <56077423.6030800@cs.ucla.edu> <83lhbsfgzs.fsf@gnu.org> <5607A028.90807@cs.ucla.edu> <83k2rcffwe.fsf@gnu.org> <5607A905.3030501@cs.ucla.edu> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443344278 3487 80.91.229.3 (27 Sep 2015 08:57:58 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 08:57:58 +0000 (UTC) Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Paul Eggert Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Sep 27 10:57:50 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1Zg7m1-0002CD-JD for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 10:57:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:56636 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zg7m0-0005OH-RF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:57:32 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35338) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zg7ln-0005OA-RP for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zg7lm-0001Wy-U3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:57:19 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:51024) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Zg7lh-0001Uk-7S; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 04:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVB00200VG1Y300@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:57:11 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVB002W5VJBTO80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Sun, 27 Sep 2015 11:57:11 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <5607A905.3030501@cs.ucla.edu> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190395 Archived-At: > Cc: dak@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org > From: Paul Eggert > Date: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 01:29:57 -0700 > > Eli Zaretskii wrote: > > If > > that's portability between locales, then our solution of having a > > coding cookie is better for Emacs, because it supports more use cases > > than just assuming UTF-8 would. > > Sure, but the point is that we shouldn't need a cookie for UTF-8. Cookies are > awkward, and should be inserted only when needed; they shouldn't be needed for > the typical case. Our experience since Emacs 20 is that the "typical case" is not a good guideline for implementing multilingual tools. Not unless the typical case becomes the only case.