Re: windows-XXXX and cpXXXX

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Even for non-DOS users, (coding-system-p 'cp1252) returns
>> nil or t depending on his locale.

> Why would non-DOS users need cp1252? why cannot they use windows-1252,
> which is the official IANA name of that encoding?

> The fact that people get confused by what the Emacs manual says about
> this (which I believe is what led us to this discussion) can be taken
> care of by fixing the manual.  There's no need to modify code for that.

> In short, cp1252 is something we invented in codepage.el.  So we might
> as well retire those cpXXX symbols for good, on all platforms (except
> DOS, which must use codepage.el).  That is my suggestion: let's remove
> cpXXX and cpXXXX aliases from code-pages.el, and let's start educating
> users to use windows-XXXX instead.

For what it's worth, I think it makes sense, although what would make even
more sense is to get code-pages working in the DOS port.


        Stefan