From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kenichi Handa Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23 character code space Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI 1.14.3 - "Ushinoya") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227673478 16588 80.91.229.12 (26 Nov 2008 04:24:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 04:24:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 26 05:25:42 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1L5By5-0004ho-7O for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 05:25:38 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:35565 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5Bwv-0005ge-9P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:24:25 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5Bwq-0005fo-EQ for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:24:20 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L5Bwo-0005e2-PK for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:24:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=43009 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L5Bwo-0005ds-GT for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:24:18 -0500 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:60493) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L5Bwl-0007H1-Fw; Tue, 25 Nov 2008 23:24:15 -0500 Original-Received: from rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.123]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id mAQ4O93J023203; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id mAQ4O9Fo024596; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id mAQ4O9Vv024015; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken.m17n.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1L5Bwf-0006ku-Ci; Wed, 26 Nov 2008 13:24:09 +0900 In-reply-to: (message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 26 Nov 2008 06:13:48 +0200) User-Agent: SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/23.0.60 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9 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:106189 Archived-At: In article , Eli Zaretskii writes: > > No. A coding-system is a mapping between a sequence of > > characters and a sequence of bytes. > Then how to understand this sentence you wrote: > Emacs decodes a specific code point of a specific character set to > an Emacs character. Here, "decode" doesn't mean "decode by a coding system". > Under what circumstances does this decoding happen? The only type of > ``decoding'' I knew about until now was by decode-coding-region and > friends, which use a coding-system to decode a byte sequence into > Emacs characters. For instance, to get a glyph-code of X font, we decode a character by a charset with that the font encodes glyph codes. --- Kenichi Handa handa@ni.aist.go.jp