From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Andreas Schwab Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: What is a preferred charset? Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:24:26 +0100 Message-ID: References: <87zhu24h0b.fsf@gmx.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1542813816 14557 195.159.176.226 (21 Nov 2018 15:23:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:23:36 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1.90 (gnu/linux) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stephen Berman Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Nov 21 16:23:32 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1gPULi-0003eU-JA for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 16:23:30 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39761 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPUNp-0007UD-0u for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:25:41 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:50461) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPUMm-0007RK-As for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:24:42 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPUMi-0002SJ-A5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:24:36 -0500 Original-Received: from mx2.suse.de ([195.135.220.15]:33286 helo=mx1.suse.de) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gPUMg-0002M2-BS for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:24:32 -0500 X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new at test-mx.suse.de Original-Received: from relay2.suse.de (unknown [195.135.220.254]) by mx1.suse.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id CD763B020; Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:24:26 +0000 (UTC) X-Yow: BRYLCREAM is CREAM O' WHEAT in another DIMENSION.. In-Reply-To: <87zhu24h0b.fsf@gmx.net> (Stephen Berman's message of "Wed, 21 Nov 2018 15:55:32 +0100") X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x (no timestamps) [generic] X-Received-From: 195.135.220.15 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "Emacs-devel" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:231290 Archived-At: On Nov 21 2018, Stephen Berman wrote: > The discussion in bug#33445 made me realize that I don't know what > distinguishes a preferred charset from other charsets It's the first from (charset-priority-list) that can encode the character. The priority is defined by the language environment. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, SUSE Labs, schwab@suse.de GPG Key fingerprint = 0196 BAD8 1CE9 1970 F4BE 1748 E4D4 88E3 0EEA B9D7 "And now for something completely different."