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: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:56:34 +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 1218045497 7376 80.91.229.12 (6 Aug 2008 17:58:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 6 Aug 2008 17:58:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: lekktu@gmail.com, jasonr@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Aug 06 19:59:07 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 1KQnHf-0008LM-Rb for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 19:58:52 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:57049 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQnGk-0006z5-2z for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:54 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQnGd-0006u7-WC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:48 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1KQnGc-0006rt-8E for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:47 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56257 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1KQnGc-0006rk-07 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:46 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout4.012.net.il ([84.95.2.10]:42483) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1KQnGY-0006pg-DN; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 13:57:42 -0400 Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.7.152]) by i_mtaout4.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0K56004SVXUP0H31@i_mtaout4.012.net.il>; Wed, 06 Aug 2008 20:56:50 +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:102130 Archived-At: > From: Kenichi Handa > CC: lekktu@gmail.com, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@gnu.org > Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2008 14:30:15 +0900 > > In article , Eli Zaretskii writes: > > > I think the only meaningful categories are those defined by Unicode. > > That is, a block of Cyrillic characters should have the cyrillic > > category, the block of Japanese characters should have japanese > > category, etc. > > Unfortunately, there's no such block as "Japanese" in > Unicode. Sorry, I meant Katakana and Hiragana. > > What kind of backward compatibility problems could we cause? Who or > > what code depends on these categories? > > (re-search-forward "\\cj") can effectively search for > characters belonging to Japanese charset. It is used, for > instance, in japanese-hankaku-region (in japan-util.el), and > "\\cc" is used in encode-hz-region (in china-util.el). Well, would it still work if "\\cj" matches Katakana and Hiragana characters?