Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
>>  Would you please explain why we can't get rid of those charsets even
>>  after we have unified them into Unicode?

> Because people want to use them.  You were complaining about charset
> information not being preserved, after all.

>>  I would like to understand this.

> Handa had better speak to his design.  I've mostly just read the
> implementation and thought it was sensible.

It seems that the word "get rid of" is confusing.

Emacs-unicode still keeps all latin-iso8859-X charsets.  We
can't get rid of them.  Those charsets carry such
information as how to map their code point to Unicode, what
designation sequence to use to be encoded in iso-2022 base
coding systems.

But we can "get rid of" a special character code area for
each of them.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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