From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: "Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen@xemacs.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>,
emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding
Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:10:02 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvprgx5qko.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8763ipake1.fsf@xemacs.org> (Stephen J. Turnbull's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2009 15:10:14 +0900")
>> Interesting. Why don't they just force the use of some arbitrarily
>> chosen variant of Unicode?
> To avoid "arbitrarily" breaking software systems and development
> environments that target other character sets.
Sorry, I meant "didn't" instead of "don't": these are recent programming
languages, and since Java was able to do it why couldn't Python do it?
> You cannot simply run all files through recode, as that will break
> strings that display on legacy terminals or have been interned
> in databases.
Nice theoretical problem, but I think that Java proves it to be
a non-issue in practice. Anyway, it's too late now,
Stefan
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-03-04 14:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-03-03 13:46 ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding Paul R
2009-03-03 13:55 ` Leo
2009-03-03 16:30 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 0:23 ` Nobuyoshi Nakada
2009-03-04 1:14 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 2:05 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04 4:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 6:10 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04 14:10 ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-04 15:07 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04 16:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 8:25 ` Paul R
2009-03-04 14:13 ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 14:56 ` Nobuyoshi Nakada
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