From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness?
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:45:19 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv8woo67mp.fsf@iro.umontreal.ca> (raw)
> It used to be that multibyte character support in emacs was selective
> and one had to enable it. Now that the support is always compiled in
> and setting buffer to multibyte seems to do unexpected things, if
> there any reason to continue with that feature?
If you really mean `enable-multibyte-characters', then it's still very
much useful and I see no reason to drop it in the foreseeable future.
If you mean default-enable-multibyte-characters, then yes it should
be dropped.
Stefan
PS: Support for multibyte has always been compiled in Emacs without any
way to "opt out", contrary to XEmacs.
`default-enable-multibyte-characters' was a way to avoid (mostly) using it
at runtime.
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2009-01-24 20:45 Stefan Monnier [this message]
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2009-01-23 17:35 Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness? Chetan Pandya
2009-01-23 19:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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