From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: rms@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2021 11:57:32 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87ee8yrnfn.fsf@db48x.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83lf362vwx.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 06 Oct 2021 15:13:34 +0300")
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Daniel Brooks <db48x@db48x.net>
>> Cc: eliz@gnu.org, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org
>> Date: Tue, 05 Oct 2021 15:13:20 -0700
>>
>> So one assumption that you might make is that new source code being
>> added to Emacs must use characters from a version of Unicode which is
>> known to have wide compatibility, rather than immediately jumping to the
>> bleeding–edge version? That would be perfectly reasonable.
>
> Except that it will only work if you use a very recent Emacs. People
> are still using Emacs 24 out there, and many are using Emacs 26, which
> supports Unicode 11.0 (the latest version is 14.0).
>
> And that's before we even begin to think about people who use other
> programs to look at our files.
I’m afraid that this is not very convincing, for it means that we can
never move an inch.
db48x
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-10-06 18:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2021-09-08 1:49 "Raw" string literals for elisp Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 7:10 ` Po Lu
2021-09-08 14:19 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 7:12 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 14:20 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 11:30 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 14:27 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 11:34 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-08 13:59 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-09-08 14:12 ` Adam Porter
2021-09-09 3:09 ` Richard Stallman
2021-09-08 13:10 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-08 14:31 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 15:27 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 15:41 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 16:45 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 16:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 18:24 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-08 19:00 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 19:22 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-08 19:36 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-09-08 21:11 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 21:24 ` Philip Kaludercic
2021-09-09 6:52 ` tomas
2021-09-08 15:54 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-08 16:05 ` tomas
2021-09-08 16:42 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2021-09-08 20:08 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-08 20:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-09 7:04 ` tomas
2021-09-09 10:30 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-09 11:36 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-09 13:33 ` Mattias Engdegård
2021-09-09 14:32 ` tomas
2021-09-14 10:43 ` Augusto Stoffel
2021-09-14 11:42 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-14 13:18 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-09-14 13:22 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-09-14 14:01 ` Ihor Radchenko
2021-09-14 14:39 ` Clément Pit-Claudel
2021-09-14 15:33 ` Amin Bandali
2021-09-14 16:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-09-14 17:49 ` Jose E. Marchesi
2021-09-08 20:40 ` Anna Glasgall
2021-09-08 21:28 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-02 21:03 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 0:13 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-04 0:36 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 12:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 15:36 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” " Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 16:34 ` Stefan Monnier
2021-10-04 20:49 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-04 21:19 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-04 22:19 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05 11:20 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-05 17:08 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-06 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-07 7:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 8:55 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-05 16:25 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 17:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 18:40 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-06 20:54 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-07 6:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 13:14 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 13:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 14:48 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-07 16:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 0:37 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-08 6:53 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 15:09 ` Display of em dashes in our documentation Stefan Kangas
2021-10-08 16:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 17:17 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-10 8:00 ` Juri Linkov
2021-10-08 17:27 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-08 18:26 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-08 17:17 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-08 17:42 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 18:47 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-08 20:01 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09 6:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 10:57 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09 11:49 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 13:08 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-09 13:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-09 15:07 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-11 0:45 ` linux console limitations Daniel Brooks
2021-10-12 10:18 ` Alan Mackenzie
2021-10-14 4:05 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-10 8:03 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” string literals for elisp Juri Linkov
2021-10-05 18:23 ` [External] : " Drew Adams
2021-10-05 19:13 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-05 19:20 ` Drew Adams
2021-10-05 17:13 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05 12:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-05 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-05 22:13 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-06 12:13 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 18:57 ` Daniel Brooks [this message]
2021-10-07 4:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-07 22:27 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-08 10:37 ` Po Lu
2021-10-08 10:53 ` Basil L. Contovounesios
2021-10-08 11:27 ` tomas
2021-10-05 22:25 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw†" Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 6:21 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-07 22:20 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-06 12:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-06 12:52 ` Stefan Kangas
2021-10-06 13:10 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-06 11:53 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw” " Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 18:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2021-10-04 19:14 ` Yuri Khan
2021-10-05 21:20 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-06 3:48 ` character sets as they relate to “Raw†" Matthew Carter
2021-10-04 22:29 ` "Raw" " Richard Stallman
2021-10-05 5:39 ` Daniel Brooks
2021-10-05 5:43 ` Jean-Christophe Helary
2021-10-05 8:24 ` Richard Stallman
2021-10-05 12:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
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