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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de, sds@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: utf-8 cut/paste
Date: 26 May 2004 16:02:59 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvsmdnt0wr.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1190-Wed26May2004201148+0300-eliz@gnu.org>

>> cp1252 could have been implemented as another charset rather than being
>> mapped to a mix of 8859-1 and unicode chars.

> If we did that, it would make the unfortunate situation, whereby there
> are multiple charsets that cover the same characters, even worse.

Isn't it exactly what happened with 8859-15 ?
I never claimed it was desirable.

> Repeat after me: "multiple character sets covering the same characters
> are BAD."

You're just saying that unicode is good.
The only point I originally tried to make is that it's better to avoid
talking about Mule charsets if possible.


        Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2004-05-26 20:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-05-23 18:59 utf-8 cut/paste Sam Steingold
2004-05-24  9:52 ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-24 16:18   ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-24 19:19     ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-24 21:00       ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-24 23:10         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-25 13:06           ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-25  6:02       ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-25 10:03         ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-25 12:36           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-25 15:41             ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26  4:22               ` Kenichi Handa
2004-05-28 17:45                 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-29 10:04                   ` Jason Rumney
2004-05-26  4:33               ` Miles Bader
2004-05-26 18:11                 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26 19:23                   ` David Kastrup
2004-05-26 11:32               ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-26 13:31                 ` Sam Steingold
2004-05-26 12:30               ` Benjamin Riefenstahl
2004-05-26 15:48         ` Stefan Monnier
2004-05-26 18:11           ` Eli Zaretskii
2004-05-26 20:02             ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2004-05-27  8:10               ` Eli Zaretskii

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