From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Michael Albinus Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:39:21 +0200 Message-ID: <87efj96aly.fsf@gmx.de> References: <83sh7qxb5j.fsf@gnu.org> <87po2t6gdm.fsf@gmx.de> <83muxxyijl.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1524245886 11478 195.159.176.226 (20 Apr 2018 17:38:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2018 17:38:06 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 20 19:38:02 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 1f9Zyx-0002p9-GV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:37:59 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46938 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9a14-0002as-AL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:40:10 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39023) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9a0P-0002Zw-0x for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9a0K-0003g0-0u for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:39:29 -0400 Original-Received: from mout.gmx.net ([212.227.17.20]:38731) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1f9a0J-0003eo-EW; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 13:39:23 -0400 Original-Received: from detlef.gmx.de ([212.86.40.41]) by mail.gmx.com (mrgmx102 [212.227.17.168]) with ESMTPSA (Nemesis) id 0MATlG-1fFbcZ3kle-00BcfM; Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:39:22 +0200 In-Reply-To: <83muxxyijl.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 20 Apr 2018 19:00:30 +0300") X-Provags-ID: V03:K1:pi4sPP2/4kBC0/5sByKZMysz3nKaiSahiDKtBnwLNyAWTZumJly basAUW3Wale6uZGJDcdKR/1R3+r+UzN+QwXpwVsg7jYSBly94g7aR7tlzZhEtpeSTCeUf85 iip2jqH/g8/GSCtSWssOAujFKI72p6bpJbdtbVQ63BkuKm11AN5H2RZ9ZBmbNnmbqwL6vu3 S339DM4taei32SbgZFEMg== X-UI-Out-Filterresults: notjunk:1;V01:K0:+Ba4QDfyjDQ=:A2HUdh7QWgtEmyPUpj7yHM FV/e+iUzXA7/cVn44B1ng1IHr+/VUk31v4Bdeba7MVSI0i0SdZJ68+tKQEKjXkPu6sfBa1cps ex5AqqXs8heYiA51yb72EcC+yzXfKLOcIy4u2E6OhaB/98cVK66pRY4fQpTVaaffCAo4B4YUm ZdxDmeizwrada3+85YH1fn1QLENe5/MgmQfoMN00E4NVgKRuyNTK2s1tVML2uoqdCexV24hDC u6pTPR0GIUnkglrAzKCFb7oER1LMGMSCKRCbGQLbFX7pzKAFdFTNV4cZp4dNzBY5ujEukIpYp saSI/XFewc7wjzKONxA0Xlb+bEM2PZy1QNMrU6yOUcgMLfOs2iYq3F18DSGptxgZ4n6uyIQ3J 09YiRHf+AabxE/r+m/7dEyZ+xcGaOC86xqbTz5ff5lJUjRx6EMPbeH+nKwEc2FPseABLwnCXd 2Vs2In4eczT+743Dw5pNIuyaJKpzyOa+h3wwL3HQMj7L3v9yKCwoHgSXyE5tHD0i+UjU3RWOk 9KSqLtqKQyJ+756G/F4ojHIycjgTNdsd564D+G8cr4Uu6miqqDsRKBoGk+qygm/We8zqmRHjb Jqc8iDaqVTj/qX7Qgfi7mk3dzrJE0yn+rsyFACUUt9yIv30GC1ZQIDCw2kA2fhZ9HXx3iI5y/ syZhOOEteqG02V5HgclYVjxVfzZoOwYLOquyc9SS7KjGjAQXnbjXbu4xHlRXJ6hw/2DML/6Sw YVdYFjr59+/Gp3dEe4sR8VikTwzfeUKOhNFtECAPMQVmSEt9dgSJab+qRnfjoRZ3aehZUPWV X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 212.227.17.20 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:224747 Archived-At: Eli Zaretskii writes: > Because we don't have infrastructure for tagging sub-ranges of Unicode > with character sets (and in some sense, that would make little sense, > because Unicode is a unifying encoding). > > ISO-2022 has built-in features to tag portions of text as belonging to > some specific charset. Thanks for the explanation. As said I have no knowledge about the topic, but I'm still surprised that something like this isn't possible with utf-8. Best regards, Michael.