From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Emacs 23 character code space Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:19:26 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1227878654 6407 80.91.229.12 (28 Nov 2008 13:24:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 28 Nov 2008 13:24:14 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 28 14:25:18 2008 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 1L63LE-000225-Ki for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 14:25:04 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40248 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L63K3-0001vJ-KO for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:23:51 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L63Fk-00011c-7c for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:19:24 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1L63Fg-000108-Kb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:19:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=44485 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1L63Ff-0000zl-96 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:19:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:37380) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1L63Fe-0004Zn-NE for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 08:19:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KB100A00OVZI100@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:21:24 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.156.55]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KB1007MSP3NXIR0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Fri, 28 Nov 2008 15:21:24 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 9.1 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:106261 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > CC: emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2008 10:41:01 +0900 > > > A translation table has two extra slots. The first is either > > @code{nil} or a translation table that performs the reverse > > translation; the second is the maximum number of characters to look up > > for translation. > > > Could you please elaborate on the second extra slot: when and for what > > purpose would there be a need to look up characters for translation? > > To enable sequence-to-char translation. See the description > of make-translation-table-from-alist. Thanks. Should we also document define-translation-table?