From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Fwd: Re: Inadequate documentation of silly characters on screen. Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:53 +0800 Message-ID: <87aayitvoy.fsf@wanchan.jasonrumney.net> References: <20091118191258.GA2676@muc.de> <20091119082040.GA1720@muc.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1258643252 10945 80.91.229.12 (19 Nov 2009 15:07:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:07:32 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Alan Mackenzie , emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Nov 19 16:07:24 2009 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 1NB8bH-0006yd-8p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 16:07:11 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51628 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB8bG-0003Mv-D7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 10:07:10 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB8Lj-0001xE-Ph for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:51:07 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1NB8Le-0001sf-Sz for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:51:06 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34459 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1NB8Le-0001sW-Ji for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:51:02 -0500 Original-Received: from mail-fx0-f225.google.com ([209.85.220.225]:62126) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1NB8Lc-0006Bs-Py for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:51:01 -0500 Original-Received: by fxm25 with SMTP id 25so2634108fxm.26 for ; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:50:59 -0800 (PST) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:received:received:sender:received:from:to:cc :subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id:user-agent :mime-version:content-type; bh=/HxcJ6NiDU/Eo522nRJXMMe3ZmMl1PidZjrD/00YyVg=; b=XunC7AXa7DtA2iQCVPZHUTFJj2D8NRbXUKutdIj0GiFNTB9lNCbwQOjHWdwpcJIKz1 lza72Hgczoq+seKlesyOMbZzPzYhfWOFmTBJWh5lMir0cETAWVwTul7jVAClTeFwlozG 8IRUHpcyrI0xHLQB9eSvZrwtIHvFd8GDdArtc= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:to:cc:subject:references:date:in-reply-to:message-id :user-agent:mime-version:content-type; b=CnmSauHc+Wo/mJXxgiX9mxXjXuCbg44cx8WPUk5rMWqQVuTcc3SnnwGp5FgNl62uha A60RadD8/O2CkS4QFdb8ED4Hc2Q/Bxpnt9moOOzljz70SX1DEnEPKCZUeHhYLJMr35qY QHvSnkzRSXRzyQaKweU92VHII8zpLEbCcsiVY= Original-Received: by 10.204.152.154 with SMTP id g26mr96588bkw.54.1258642259606; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:50:59 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from wanchan.jasonrumney.net ([118.100.163.63]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id 16sm205085fxm.8.2009.11.19.06.50.57 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=RC4-MD5); Thu, 19 Nov 2009 06:50:58 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: by wanchan.jasonrumney.net (Postfix, from userid 1000) id 8A06B21A3; Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:50:53 +0800 (MYT) In-Reply-To: (Stefan Monnier's message of "Thu, 19 Nov 2009 09:08:29 -0500") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 2) 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:117250 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > We should probably moved towards making all string immediates multibyte > and add a new syntax to unibyte immediates. Also, make it an error to try to put a multibyte character in a unibyte string rather than automatically converting the string to multibyte or silently truncating to 8 bit or whatever Emacs does now.