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From: Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
Cc: gazally@runbox.com, 30405@debbugs.gnu.org,
	npostavs@users.sourceforge.net
Subject: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:30:55 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1ekcjX-000860-24@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <2061ef0c-de4d-d8c1-aea8-786223e59c7e@cs.ucla.edu> (message from Paul Eggert on Sat, 10 Feb 2018 10:57:28 -0800)

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  > This made sense back in the 1990s when unibyte was commonly used for text. 
  > Nowadays, though, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the echo area multibyte? 
  > The echo area is intended for text, not for binary data.

I agree in principle.  But I don't know how much work the change would
be.

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2018-02-10 21:30 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 28+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-02-09 21:13 bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message Gemini Lasswell
2018-02-09 23:04 ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  0:10   ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  0:29     ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-10  8:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 23:34       ` Glenn Morris
2018-02-11  3:38         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11  3:41           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11  5:08             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10  3:07   ` Noam Postavsky
2018-02-10  8:39     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 14:15       ` Andreas Schwab
2018-02-10 16:43         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 18:57       ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-10 21:24         ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 17:26           ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-11 18:04             ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 18:16               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-11 20:36                 ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 18:21                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 19:34                     ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-12 19:59                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-12 20:31                         ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-13  5:03                           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-13 17:43                             ` Paul Eggert
2018-02-13 19:58                               ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-17 12:29                                 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-02-10 21:30         ` Richard Stallman [this message]

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