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: enable-character-translation Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 10:59:13 +0900 Message-ID: References: <873abkb3el.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1242871161 19059 80.91.229.12 (21 May 2009 01:59:21 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 21 May 2009 01:59:21 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 21 03:59:13 2009 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 1M6xYv-0005uV-2M for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 21 May 2009 03:59:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:58388 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6xYu-0001gq-HU for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6xYq-0001gZ-7E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:08 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1M6xYl-0001fp-Qg for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:07 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52885 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1M6xYl-0001fi-Hc for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mx1.aist.go.jp ([150.29.246.133]:47889) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1M6xYi-00023m-Es; Wed, 20 May 2009 21:59:00 -0400 Original-Received: from rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp (rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp [150.29.254.123]) by mx1.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n4L1wssY004562; Thu, 21 May 2009 10:58:54 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from smtp2.aist.go.jp by rqsmtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n4L1wsbT006793; Thu, 21 May 2009 10:58:54 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: by smtp2.aist.go.jp with ESMTP id n4L1ws8U003498; Thu, 21 May 2009 10:58:54 +0900 (JST) env-from (handa@m17n.org) Original-Received: from handa by etlken with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1M6xYv-0001gX-1Q; Thu, 21 May 2009 10:59:13 +0900 In-reply-to: (message from Miles Bader on Tue, 19 May 2009 10:21:24 +0900) 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:111009 Archived-At: In article , Miles Bader writes: > Stefan Monnier 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