From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de,
Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
Subject: Re: windows-XXXX and cpXXXX
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 09:45:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87u0c8gpb7.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ulkxkse69.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:52:14 +0200")
>> Even for non-DOS users, (coding-system-p 'cp1252) returns
>> nil or t depending on his locale.
> Why would non-DOS users need cp1252? why cannot they use windows-1252,
> which is the official IANA name of that encoding?
> The fact that people get confused by what the Emacs manual says about
> this (which I believe is what led us to this discussion) can be taken
> care of by fixing the manual. There's no need to modify code for that.
> In short, cp1252 is something we invented in codepage.el. So we might
> as well retire those cpXXX symbols for good, on all platforms (except
> DOS, which must use codepage.el). That is my suggestion: let's remove
> cpXXX and cpXXXX aliases from code-pages.el, and let's start educating
> users to use windows-XXXX instead.
For what it's worth, I think it makes sense, although what would make even
more sense is to get code-pages working in the DOS port.
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-13 14:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 32+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-12-13 23:34 [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign] Richard M. Stallman
2005-12-14 18:56 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-14 22:51 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-15 1:34 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-15 16:20 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-15 22:02 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-16 8:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 17:59 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-17 7:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-16 11:55 ` Ralf Angeli
2005-12-16 22:58 ` Kevin Rodgers
2005-12-17 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2005-12-17 10:47 ` Reiner Steib
2006-01-10 12:38 ` windows-XXXX and cpXXXX Kenichi Handa
2006-01-10 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-11 11:35 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-11 17:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 1:25 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-12 4:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 8:29 ` Werner LEMBERG
2006-01-12 19:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-12 13:23 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-12 19:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 0:58 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 8:52 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-13 11:50 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 12:59 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-16 1:05 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-16 4:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2006-01-16 12:11 ` Kenichi Handa
2006-01-13 14:45 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2005-12-16 10:35 ` [angeli@iwi.uni-sb.de: Coding problem with Euro sign] David Hansen
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