From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:29 -0400 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <87odyfnqcj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <17498.27200.911709.330947@parhasard.net> <877j4z5had.fsf@gmx.de> <87irohfrx1.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147207372 17509 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2006 20:42:52 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 20:42:52 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org, alkibiades@gmx.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 09 22:42:35 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdZ2P-0001b6-4p for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 22:42:33 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdZ2O-0007nX-NQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:42:32 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdZ1R-0007Rk-LY for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdZ1R-0007RJ-5w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:33 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdZ1Q-0007RA-Qu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:32 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FdZ2Y-0002Qy-9B for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:42:42 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.34) id 1FdZ1N-0005Ec-7c; Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:29 -0400 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Tue, 09 May 2006 06:42:29 +0300) 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:54146 > I do not know what those variables mean. Do they affect the > choice of coding system? Or do they take effect by altering > the meaning of a given coding system? They select the target character set. When Emacs decodes text with Latin or Cyrillic or Greek characters, it could produce either Unicode charset or one of the ISO 8859 charsets. These variables control that. I cannot determine clearly, from your response, the answer to my questions. Do these variables affect the choice of coding system? Or do they take effect by altering the meaning of a given coding system? I think perhaps you are saying it is the latter, but I am not sure. If it is the latter, perhaps the best solution is to say that every Lisp file should specify these variables, in the -*- line or local variables list, if they affect it.