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From: Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: One example of code I can't understand
Date: Mon, 20 Jul 2009 22:50:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <877hy3w03j.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvocrfw7t3.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Mon, 20 Jul 2009 14:13:59 -0400")

On Mon, Jul 20 2009, Stefan Monnier wrote:

> In Emacs-23 it doesn't make much sense (because unification, OFFSET is
> always 0).  It's used in mm-find-mime-charset-region (via
> mm-iso-8859-x-to-15-region) to provide a "poor man's unification":
[...]
> Now that we have utf-8, this is unnecessary since we can always encode
> the whole text with just a single coding-system, without having to break
> it down into chunks.

Please keep in mind that Gnus wants to support older Emacs versions
and XEmacs, see (info "(gnus)Emacsen").  So please don't remove this
code.

Bye, Reiner.
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  reply	other threads:[~2009-07-20 20:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-07-19 23:21 One example of code I can't understand Richard Stallman
2009-07-20 18:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-20 20:50   ` Reiner Steib [this message]
2009-07-21 14:41     ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 17:34       ` Reiner Steib
2009-07-22 22:21         ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 14:42   ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21 18:21     ` Eli Zaretskii
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2009-07-19 23:21 Richard Stallman
2009-07-20  3:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-20 19:01   ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-21  0:51     ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-21  3:07       ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-07-21  4:10         ` Kenichi Handa
2009-07-21 14:41       ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-22  6:58       ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-07-21  0:59     ` Stefan Monnier
2009-07-21 14:41       ` Richard Stallman
2009-07-19 23:21 Richard Stallman

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