From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: choice for the new emacs icon Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:46:28 +0100 Message-ID: <864pclhzez.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> References: <200802050135.m151ZGDH005052@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87hcgof9as.fsf@stupidchicken.com> <200802060547.m165lAPb003310@sallyv1.ics.uci.edu> <87sl05v61m.fsf@jurta.org> <85sl05yy4v.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <86d4r9i030.fsf@lola.quinscape.zz> <47AAD131.3030303@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1202377641 322 80.91.229.12 (7 Feb 2008 09:47:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2008 09:47:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Juri Linkov , emacs-devel@gnu.org, Miles Bader To: Jason Rumney Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 07 10:47:42 2008 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 1JN3M3-0004s2-Rd for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 10:47:40 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JN3Lb-0004nx-5R for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:47:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JN3L6-0004Mk-3x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:46:40 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JN3L3-0004KB-A9 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:46:38 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JN3L2-0004Jc-9G for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:46:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.quinscape.de ([212.29.44.217]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JN3L1-0002z1-3z for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Feb 2008 04:46:35 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail-ldap/ctrl 29375 invoked from network); 7 Feb 2008 09:46:30 -0000 Original-Received: from unknown (HELO lola.quinscape.zz) ([10.0.3.43]) (envelope-sender ) by ns.quinscape.de (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 7 Feb 2008 09:46:29 -0000 Original-Received: by lola.quinscape.zz (Postfix, from userid 1001) id B76B48FABB; Thu, 7 Feb 2008 10:46:28 +0100 (CET) In-Reply-To: <47AAD131.3030303@gnu.org> (Jason Rumney's message of "Thu, 07 Feb 2008 09:36:49 +0000") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-AntiVirus: checked by AntiVir MailGate (version: 2.1.3-2; AVE: 7.6.0.62; VDF: 7.0.2.102; host: quinx) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) 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:88414 Archived-At: Jason Rumney writes: > David Kastrup wrote: >> Well, you are living in a country that makes do with the ASCII subset: >> not much room for trouble there. I certainly did experience problems. >> \201 is probably a hard-wired visual for me. After the Unicode merge, >> there won't even be much of an opportunity for bugs/coding problems to >> trigger \201 nostalgia. We'll get different artifacts if at all. >> > > What did Emacs 19 display for that particular ISO control character? It is not an ISO control character. It is a MULE character sequence starter for the iso-latin-1 subset IIRC (which is why we will stop seeing it, at least once no temporary/autosave files from Emacs 22 are present anymore). So you would have had no interesting opportunity to see it in Emacs 19. -- David Kastrup