From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ^M in the info files Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:02 -0400 Message-ID: References: <484F1FAB.6070005@gmail.com> <487481B2.3090302@gnu.org> <87vdzdtwvm.fsf@jurta.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1216616273 13219 80.91.229.12 (21 Jul 2008 04:57:53 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:57:53 +0000 (UTC) Cc: juri@jurta.org, lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 06:58:41 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 1KKnTt-0004q2-3P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 06:58:41 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:47499 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnT0-0005vx-7Y for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnSn-0005mW-1F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:33 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnSk-0005kA-ED for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=34248 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KKnSk-0005jx-8w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:30 -0400 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:10630 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KKnSc-0004WH-4h; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:22 -0400 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: ApsEAHO0g0hFxIYw/2dsb2JhbACBWqs9gXo X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.31,221,1215403200"; d="scan'208";a="24577294" Original-Received: from 69-196-134-48.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.134.48]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 21 Jul 2008 00:57:05 -0400 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 20A3D8636; Mon, 21 Jul 2008 00:57:02 -0400 (EDT) In-Reply-To: (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Sat, 19 Jul 2008 18:29:57 -0400") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-kernel: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. 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:101048 Archived-At: >> > But maybe in this case we should force some safe coding like `undecided' >> > (as it seems to use now for pure ASCII Info files without null-bytes)? >> No, I think it should use `us-ascii' instead. > That is almost certainly a bad idea: no need to punish users who have > non-ASCII Info files without a proper `coding' tag. How common is that? >> What happens if your TeXinfo file specifies a latin-1 encoding and your >> date is output in utf-8 because of your locale, then? > You get a garbled file. Good, so we don't need to worry about this case since it's broken anyway. > Btw, the official name of the project is Texinfo, not TeXinfo. Yes, sorry, I actually know it, but old habits die hard, Stefan