From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Is it possible to use new Emacsen with non-ASCII? Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 11:59:51 +0300 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1211534232 1399 80.91.229.12 (23 May 2008 09:17:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 23 May 2008 09:17:12 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri May 23 11:17:49 2008 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1JzTPI-0007IX-Og for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 11:17:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48316 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzTOX-0005CR-M5 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:17:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzT8W-0001zb-4Z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:28 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1JzT8S-0001yw-6o for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:26 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=53766 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1JzT8P-0001yj-R0 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il ([84.95.2.13]:29139) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1JzT8P-00028p-G3 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 05:00:21 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([80.230.146.168]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K1B00FCEDO64H31@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 23 May 2008 12:14:30 +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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:54270 Archived-At: > From: Ilya Zakharevich > Date: Thu, 22 May 2008 20:23:25 +0000 (UTC) > Bcc: ilya@gnu.org > Originator: ilya@powdermilk.math.berkeley.edu > > > Well, then just remember that whenever they decide to upgrade to 22, > > you should switch to `(set-locale-environment "koi8-r")', although > > what worked with 21.x should also continue working. > > Now I'm completely confused... Would the invocation which works with > 21 work also with 22? I just said (see above) that it should also work in 22.x. I just didn't try it, so I don't know for sure. > If so, why would I want to switch from code which works with two > versions of Emacs to code which works only with one? Because (1) it's shorter, and (2) the 22.x method is The Right Way, whereas the 21.x method is a kludgy approximation.