From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Peter Dyballa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: alphabets resp. locales Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:05:57 +0200 Message-ID: <890DCAB1-EAD8-40D1-BDC2-545B47678199@Web.DE> References: <4C625688.6080600@online.de> <4C628FDF.9020003@easy-emacs.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (Apple Message framework v936) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed; delsp=yes Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1281532000 12718 80.91.229.12 (11 Aug 2010 13:06:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 13:06:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Andreas_R=F6hler?= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 11 15:06:39 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjB0s-0001S2-Ph for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:06:35 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:46629 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjB0r-0002oZ-D7 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=49318 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1OjB0P-0002lD-GV for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjB0K-0005Au-MW for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:05 -0400 Original-Received: from fmmailgate01.web.de ([217.72.192.221]:49011) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1OjB0K-0005AZ-Ds for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 09:06:00 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp03.web.de ( [172.20.0.65]) by fmmailgate01.web.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id E06E316604B2A; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:05:58 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [91.35.239.135] (helo=[192.168.1.2]) by smtp03.web.de with asmtp (WEB.DE 4.110 #24) id 1OjB0I-0007dR-00; Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:05:58 +0200 In-Reply-To: <4C628FDF.9020003@easy-emacs.de> X-Mailer: Apple Mail (2.936) X-Sender: Peter_Dyballa@web.de X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX19KhAFpQD2XjYjo+t3nkrs176wO9GWJB61+nbKy Ax4vOQYDJBZDCPAEoYk/ZBeoE4Fi1ZlQZKS3cBWI5Jwp34fezA zWurQ5GpwLPWymmkLb5w== X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.4-2.6 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:74542 Archived-At: Am 11.08.2010 um 13:56 schrieb Andreas R=F6hler: > Emacs knows, I'm pretty sure it's mapped somewhere. For what? Which is the purpose of an alphabet? Why came Apple with a =20 first MacRoman *encoding* and MS with so-called "code pages"? Both =20 companies and even more users of this hard- and software would have =20 had an easy life with alphabets instead of encodings. Did a 'grep abcd' on the GNU Emacs sources reveal something? Did you =20 read about charsets? A test whether some character is alphabetic or something else is not =20 limited to whether this character is or was or will be used in some =20 language variant of some country at some era. -- Mit friedvollen Gr=FC=DFen Pete Spam will be a thing of the past in two years' time. =96 Bill Gates, Jan 2004