enable-character-translation

enable-character-translation

[Chong Yidong]

Question: is the variable `enable-character-translation' still used for
anything, or is it obsolete?

Re: enable-character-translation

[Stefan Monnier]

> Question: is the variable `enable-character-translation' still used for
> anything, or is it obsolete?

AFAICT it's obsolete.  No code implements the "feature" (I'm not even
sure what that feature would be), and no code uses it.


        Stefan

Re: enable-character-translation

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <jwvab5rniv6.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > Question: is the variable `enable-character-translation' still used for
> > anything, or is it obsolete?

> AFAICT it's obsolete.  No code implements the "feature" (I'm not even
> sure what that feature would be), and no code uses it.

Oops, I've forgotten to implement it in coding.c of
emacs-unicode version.  Emacs 22 surely payed attention to
that variable.  I'm going to implement it if there's no
objection.  The change will be quite small.

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org

Re: enable-character-translation

[Stefan Monnier]

>> > Question: is the variable `enable-character-translation' still used for
>> > anything, or is it obsolete?

>> AFAICT it's obsolete.  No code implements the "feature" (I'm not even
>> sure what that feature would be), and no code uses it.

> Oops, I've forgotten to implement it in coding.c of emacs-unicode
> version.  Emacs 22 surely payed attention to that variable.  I'm going
> to implement it if there's no objection.  The change will be
> quite small.

Since nobody noticed the absence of the feature, it sounds like a great
way to waste time ;-)


        Stefan

Re: enable-character-translation

[Miles Bader]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>> Oops, I've forgotten to implement it in coding.c of emacs-unicode
>> version.  Emacs 22 surely payed attention to that variable.  I'm going
>> to implement it if there's no objection.  The change will be
>> quite small.
>
> Since nobody noticed the absence of the feature, it sounds like a great
> way to waste time ;-)

Well, nobody _complained_ about its absence ...

-Miles

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Re: enable-character-translation

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <buo63fxq44r.fsf@dhlpc061.dev.necel.com>, Miles Bader <miles@gnu.org> writes:

> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> Oops, I've forgotten to implement it in coding.c of emacs-unicode
>>> version.  Emacs 22 surely payed attention to that variable.  I'm going
>>> to implement it if there's no objection.  The change will be
>>> quite small.
> >
> > Since nobody noticed the absence of the feature, it sounds like a great
> > way to waste time ;-)

> Well, nobody _complained_ about its absence ...

That's not a positive argument to delete some feature from
Emacs.  To decide to delete some feature, I think we should
have some more strong reason (i.e. keeping the feature is
difficult/impossible, it is found that the feature conflicts
with some other part of Emacs).

Perhaps we don't have enough heavy CJK pretesters who are
playing with various kind of text decoding.  I myself used
to set that variable to nil while debugging some coding
system that has decode/encode-translation-table.  In Emacs
22, we have many such coding systems, but now we have just
one (eucjp-ms).  So, the importance of this variable is
surely small now, but still...

---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org