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: 23.0.60; end-of-sentence and non-breaking space Date: Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:18:22 +0200 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1231042715 30204 80.91.229.12 (4 Jan 2009 04:18:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 4 Jan 2009 04:18:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: cyd@stupidchicken.com, 1726@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: rms@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sun Jan 04 05:19:45 2009 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 1LJKSm-0008Lz-34 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 05:19:44 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:56815 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJKRW-0002QJ-NY for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJKRS-0002Q4-1w for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LJKRQ-0002Ps-7F for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=57000 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LJKRQ-0002Pp-3m for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtaout6.012.net.il ([84.95.2.16]:29547) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LJKRO-00022m-9m; Sat, 03 Jan 2009 23:18:18 -0500 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.i-mtaout6.012.net.il by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0KCX00600IL06T00@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:18:17 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.220.202]) by i-mtaout6.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0KCX00KW9IMG7T40@i-mtaout6.012.net.il>; Sun, 04 Jan 2009 06:18:17 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (1203?) 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:107565 Archived-At: > From: Richard M Stallman > CC: cyd@stupidchicken.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, > monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, 1726@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com > Date: Sat, 03 Jan 2009 21:16:21 -0500 > > We need some way of inserting raw 8-bit bytes, because otherwise code > that encodes and decodes text in Lisp will not work. For inserting > characters, we have the \u alternative; but I don't think there's > alternative for raw bytes except insert \xNN. > > Naybe that is a valid reason for the current behavior, but that > doesn't alter the need for the manual to document the behavior. That was an attempt at explaining the reasons, not telling they don't need to be documented. > Meanwhile, the Chinese and Chinese-derived character codes > do not follow Unicode. So you can't enter them with \u. > What is the way to enter them? The problem at hand exists only for codes that are less than FF hex.