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: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 06:42:29 +0300 Message-ID: References: <17491.34779.959316.484740@parhasard.net> <87odyfnqcj.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> <17498.27200.911709.330947@parhasard.net> <877j4z5had.fsf@gmx.de> <87irohfrx1.fsf@gmx.de> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1147146176 8564 80.91.229.2 (9 May 2006 03:42:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 May 2006 03:42:56 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org, alkibiades@gmx.de Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 09 05:42:53 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdJ7b-0002bN-8r for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 09 May 2006 05:42:51 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdJ7a-0002lK-SV for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 23:42:50 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdJ7O-0002lF-Lp for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 23:42:38 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1FdJ7M-0002l3-9g for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 23:42:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1FdJ7M-0002l0-4l for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 08 May 2006 23:42:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.20] (helo=nitzan.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.52) id 1FdJ8J-0004Ox-IX; Mon, 08 May 2006 23:43:35 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 (IGLD-84-228-241-162.inter.net.il [84.228.241.162]) by nitzan.inter.net.il (MOS 3.7.3-GA) with ESMTP id DHS51645 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 9 May 2006 06:42:27 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: rms@gnu.org In-reply-to: (message from Richard Stallman on Mon, 08 May 2006 18:29:13 -0400) 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:54123 Archived-At: > From: Richard Stallman > Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:29:13 -0400 > Cc: alkibiades@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org, handa@m17n.org > > We seem to be talking about two variables here: > unify-8859-on-decoding-mode and utf-fragment-on-decoding. Are there > any others involved? > > I do not know what those variables mean. Do they affect the > choice of coding system? Or do they take effect by altering > the meaning of a given coding system? They select the target character set. When Emacs decodes text with Latin or Cyrillic or Greek characters, it could produce either Unicode charset or one of the ISO 8859 charsets. These variables control that.