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: On language-dependent defaults for character-folding Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:58 -0500 Message-ID: References: <87vb5wvzfz.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <87io1wt4cc.fsf@wanadoo.es> <8737syoima.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <871t8iu277.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s28kvh.fsf@gnu.org> <87r3gis7sm.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83twle71xy.fsf@gnu.org> <87io1us0te.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83pow26svf.fsf@gnu.org> <87a8n5srbp.fsf@wanadoo.es> <83d1s17npz.fsf@gnu.org> <87oablfpn3.fsf@mail.linkov.net> <834mdd6llx.fsf@gnu.org> <7fbb8bc7-9a97-4bad-a103-a6690a35241d@default> <834mdc5w6o.fsf@gnu.org> <838u2hu6aq.fsf@gnu.org> <871t899tde.fsf@gnus.org> <83y4ahru04.fsf@gnu.org> <877fi05nhx.fsf@gnus.org> <8337snreeu.fsf@gnu.org> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=Utf-8 X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1455978820 26590 80.91.229.3 (20 Feb 2016 14:33:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 20 Feb 2016 14:33:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: larsi@gnus.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 20 15:33:31 2016 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8bD-00056m-2P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 15:33:31 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:33256 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8bC-0004q6-6g for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:33:30 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39745) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8ap-0004jz-Kj for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:33:08 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8ao-0002at-VR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:33:07 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:34730) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8ah-0002W4-BB; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:59 -0500 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1aX8ag-0007gT-I4; Sat, 20 Feb 2016 09:32:58 -0500 In-reply-to: <8337snreeu.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 20 Feb 2016 10:09:45 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:200316 Archived-At: [[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider ]]] [[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies, ]]] [[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]] > Are you saying that making the default depend on the locale would be > OK? I think it is ok to use the locale as a sort of last default, but more important than that is to make it easy to specify different behaviors in Emacs, both globally and for a specific buffer. -- Dr Richard Stallman President, Free Software Foundation (gnu.org, fsf.org) Internet Hall-of-Famer (internethalloffame.org) Skype: No way! See stallman.org/skype.html.