From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: utf-16le vs utf-16-le Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:44:29 +0900 Message-ID: <87d4oporhe.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> References: <87wsn1fl72.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87prssgacl.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <851w58q24a.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87lk3gfg40.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87fxtof8x1.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87wsmzdpsp.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <87abjtr1xt.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> <85hce1a6d0.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <87myntp3k6.fsf@uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1208417707 9202 80.91.229.12 (17 Apr 2008 07:35:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 07:35:07 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Apr 17 09:35:40 2008 connect(): Connection refused 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 1JmOee-0005yc-AH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 09:35:36 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JmOdz-0002rp-Ar for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:55 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JmOdu-0002qA-D1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:50 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JmOdr-0002py-Qo for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:48 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JmOdr-0002pv-LM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:47 -0400 Original-Received: from mx20.gnu.org ([199.232.41.8]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JmOdm-0005GB-36; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:42 -0400 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]) by mx20.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JmOdl-0005aZ-AZ; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 03:34:41 -0400 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 86A6A8001; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:34:25 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id D4DEF1A29F3; Thu, 17 Apr 2008 16:44:29 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 2785829fe37c XEmacs Lucid X-detected-kernel: by mx20.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) 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:95389 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > > From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" > > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , > > emacs-devel@gnu.org > > Date: Thu, 17 Apr 2008 12:23:37 +0900 > > > > I also find it faintly unclean when the system has to go around > > parsing symbol names to do things like change the EOL convention > > preferred for a buffer. > > We don't parse the symbol name at all, AFAIR; instead, the properties > of each symbol are defined in advance by define-coding-system. OK, so you've got properties which must be defined in correspondence with the coding system names. No parsing needed, but this would bother me, defining NxMxP symbols when I could define N+M+P symbols. I guess that doesn't bother you, so I'll just leave it at that.