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: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:03:57 +0300 Message-ID: References: <48900ED2.2000703@gnu.org> <4890670C.9000009@gnu.org> <48906865.4000808@gnu.org> <48907856.6040308@gnu.org> <48930CE4.5080305@gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1218132324 8311 80.91.229.12 (7 Aug 2008 18:05:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 7 Aug 2008 18:05:24 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Aug 07 20:06:15 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 1KR9rP-00055V-Sm for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 20:05:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:51372 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9qU-0008Kr-Ez for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:18 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9qP-0008Il-6l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:13 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9qN-0008HB-KC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:12 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=33519 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KR9qN-0008Gx-EF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:11 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il ([84.95.2.4]:30923) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KR9qB-00064h-T1; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 14:04:00 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.62.79]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K5800594SV02451@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Thu, 07 Aug 2008 21:04:14 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-kernel: 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:102166 Archived-At: > From: Miles Bader > Cc: Kenichi Handa , lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, > emacs-devel@gnu.org > Date: Thu, 07 Aug 2008 13:54:55 +0900 > > Eli Zaretskii writes: > > I meant would it break something if "\\cj" matched only the Katakana > > and Hiragana characters instead of what it matches today? > > I don't know what it would break, but that doesn't seem like > particularly intuitive behavior. ??? Why not? > I think emacs' concept of characters belonging to multiple language > categories is pretty neat actually. Maybe I'm missing something, but I don't see how the fact that, say, Cyrillic characters are claimed to belong to Japanese category could be considered ``neat''.