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bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UT
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Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8 |
Date: |
Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:41:44 +0300 |
> From: jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 23:27:51 +0800
> Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Many users will say: didn't I make a big effort years ago to totally
> convert my environment? Why do I still have traces of big5 hanging
> around?
Users should not look into the code unless they actually read it (as
opposed to grep them with some random string) and understand what the
code does.
> Perhaps there should be a more neutral name used. Since it seems what
> you are calling Chinese-Big5 does not have much to do with
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Traditional_Chinese#Computer_encoding
> after all.
It _is_ a name of an encoding, just the Emacs name. It just isn't
used in the way you thought.
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, jidanni, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, Jason Rumney, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, jidanni, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, jidanni, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8, jidanni, 2010/08/16
- bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8,
Eli Zaretskii <=