Re: getting out of raw-text encoding

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@elta.co.il>]

> From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 22:06:21 +0200
> >
> > I'd like to remind you that until now, cpNNN encodings could only
> > express characters of a single charset.  This makes support of
> > Microsoft's abominations impossible.  (The CVS version of Emacs fixes
> > that in code-pages.el.)
> 
> Hm?
> 
> It would have been possible to introduce another charset for cp1252.

Yes, and that would create yet another set of charsets which are
largely identical to the corresponding Latin-N charsets.  Given the
bloody mess we have with Latin-N charsets that have only a few
identical codepoints, I'm glad I've made the design decision to treat
cpNNN as encodings, not as charsets.

Look how many people complain here about the Latin-1 vs Latin-9
discrepancy.