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
next prev parent 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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