From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Ralf Wildenhues Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.bugs Subject: Re: Typos in the manual Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:56:48 +0100 Organization: Institute for Numerical Simulation, University of Bonn Message-ID: <20110219175648.GB5311@ins.uni-bonn.de> References: <201102191840.24051.bruno@clisp.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1298138279 13572 80.91.229.12 (19 Feb 2011 17:57:59 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2011 17:57:59 +0000 (UTC) Cc: bug-guile@gnu.org To: Bruno Haible Original-X-From: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Feb 19 18:57:50 2011 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-bugs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqr41-0004KU-1C for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:57:49 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:40126 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqr40-0006xm-HA for guile-bugs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:57:48 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=35817 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1Pqr3C-0006S8-VO for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:57:00 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqr38-0002JL-DB for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:56:58 -0500 Original-Received: from merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de ([131.220.223.13]:45293) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1Pqr38-0002Il-7u for bug-guile@gnu.org; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 12:56:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTP id 03DAF400081F5; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:56:52 +0100 (CET) X-Virus-Scanned: Debian amavisd-new at merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de Original-Received: from merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id 1KhNcs3H6Tn7; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:56:49 +0100 (CET) Original-Received: from ins.uni-bonn.de (gibraltar [192.168.193.254]) by merkur.ins.uni-bonn.de (Postfix) with ESMTPS id DC276400081CB; Sat, 19 Feb 2011 18:56:49 +0100 (CET) Mail-Followup-To: Ralf Wildenhues , Bruno Haible , bug-guile@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201102191840.24051.bruno@clisp.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-Received-From: 131.220.223.13 X-BeenThere: bug-guile@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Bug reports for GUILE, GNU's Ubiquitous Extension Language" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: bug-guile-bounces+guile-bugs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.bugs:5190 Archived-At: Hi Bruno, * Bruno Haible wrote on Sat, Feb 19, 2011 at 06:40:23PM CET: > Regarding this commit: > > Ralf Wildenhues wrote in : > > > > > latin1 vs. latin-1, > > > > > > I'm happy to defer to you on that. What do you recommend? > > > > Never mind on this one. Prose already uses latin-1 consistently in the > > *.texi files, and I assume actual code references to Guile and Emacs > > code need use the spelling that is correct there. > > Actually, "latin1" is a standardized encoding name (standardized by IANA in > ), whereas "latin-1" is not. Yes, that's what I meant when I wrote "actual code references", but obviously I was way too terse and failed to express myself clearly at all. Ludo, could you revert those bits? > Therefore it's a good idea to use in the documentation the standardized name > and not some different name that appears "prettier" but does not actually work. I agree. Thanks for proof-reading! Ralf