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: Has enable-multibyte-characters outlived its usefulness? Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 15:45:19 -0500 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1233597711 4029 80.91.229.12 (2 Feb 2009 18:01:51 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 2 Feb 2009 18:01:51 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: pandyacus@sbcglobal.net Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Feb 02 19:03:05 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 1LU38R-0006Uv-Tu for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 19:03:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:45110 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU379-0004Sd-Bf for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:43 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU36e-00041R-UB for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LU36e-00040M-2g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:12 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=39293 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LU36d-000408-Tl for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:11 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:46393 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LU36d-0001Xh-E0 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:01:11 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AswEACTEhknO+IQk/2dsb2JhbACBbso/hBQGgmw X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.37,366,1231131600"; d="scan'208";a="33211601" Original-Received: from 206-248-132-36.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([206.248.132.36]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 02 Feb 2009 13:01:03 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id EAF1F8229; Mon, 2 Feb 2009 13:01:02 -0500 (EST) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: 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:108609 Archived-At: > 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.