From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Juri Linkov Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 23:31:22 +0300 Organization: LINKOV.NET Message-ID: <8736zopahx.fsf@mail.linkov.net> References: <83sh7qxb5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87po2t6gdm.fsf@gmx.de> <87in8l6ap1.fsf@gmx.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524344129 6683 195.159.176.226 (21 Apr 2018 20:55:29 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2018 20:55:29 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) Cc: Eli Zaretskii , Paul Eggert , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Michael Albinus Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Apr 21 22:55:24 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1f9zXX-0001dL-HO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 22:55:23 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46001 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9zZb-000552-EF for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56933) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9zZU-00054Q-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:57:25 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9zZT-0006YR-P0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:57:24 -0400 Original-Received: from sub3.mail.dreamhost.com ([69.163.253.7]:42683 helo=homiemail-a100.g.dreamhost.com) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9zZQ-0006T1-51; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 16:57:20 -0400 Original-Received: from homiemail-a100.g.dreamhost.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by homiemail-a100.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4951231A070; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:57:18 -0700 (PDT) Original-Received: from localhost.linkov.net (m91-129-110-22.cust.tele2.ee [91.129.110.22]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) (Authenticated sender: jurta@jurta.org) by homiemail-a100.g.dreamhost.com (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id F25BA31A061; Sat, 21 Apr 2018 13:57:16 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <87in8l6ap1.fsf@gmx.de> (Michael Albinus's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:37:30 +0200") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 69.163.253.7 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:224774 Archived-At: >> It's true that this isn't important. Still, I like the the "hello" >> emoji; it's friendly. > > Yes, that was the idea. It's a pity that we cannot add valid utf-8 > characters to etc/HELLO, when they are not iso-2022-7bit compatible. I don't understand why it's impossible to create a charset like the existing mule-unicode-e000-ffff but for character range over U+FFFF to include such characters as U+1F44B. Or is this an inherent limitation of the iso-2022-7bit coding system?