From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 10:10:39 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83in8lxceo.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87efj96aly.fsf@gmx.de> (message from Michael Albinus on Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:39:21 +0200)
> From: Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:39:21 +0200
>
> I'm still surprised that something like this isn't possible with utf-8.
UTF-8 cannot encode language-specific differences of a given
character, that is something that is against the basic principle of
Unicode: that each character has one and only one encoding.
This is one reason why Emacs uses a superset of Unicode in its
internal representation, btw.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-04-21 7:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 33+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-04-20 13:25 Encoding of etc/HELLO Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-20 15:34 ` Michael Albinus
2018-04-20 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-20 16:16 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-20 17:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-20 20:42 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-20 21:02 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-20 21:26 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-21 7:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-21 14:58 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
2018-05-19 15:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-19 17:17 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-19 18:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-19 18:23 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-19 18:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-19 19:38 ` Paul Eggert
2018-05-19 20:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-20 8:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-05-19 17:52 ` Michael Albinus
2018-04-20 17:39 ` Michael Albinus
2018-04-21 7:10 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-04-21 14:40 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2018-04-21 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-21 15:52 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-23 2:53 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 15:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-23 15:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-04-23 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-20 16:56 ` Paul Eggert
2018-04-20 17:37 ` Michael Albinus
2018-04-21 20:31 ` Juri Linkov
2018-04-23 16:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-04-23 20:05 ` Juri Linkov
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