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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'e


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset
Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 20:37:00 +0300

> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:49:10 -0400
> 
> >> I know and understand what this charset is for.  Yet I don't see why
> >> eight-bit-control chars should be reported as belonging to this charset
> >> (any more than they should be reported to belong to any of the other
> >> charsets to which they may also belong, such as all the iso8859
> >> charsets).
> >
> > Because ISO-8859 charsets don't include bytes between 128 and 159
> > (inclusive), I guess.
> 
> According to the info I found, tis620 doesn't include those codes either
> (and doesn't include 160 either, contrary to iso8859-11 which is
> otherwise identical).
> 
> > We actually don't want to expose eight-bit-control to users at all, we
> > want there to be a single charset called 'eight-bit' covering all the
> > raw bytes.
> 
> Fair enough, then the chars in eight-bit-control should have `eight-bit`
> as their canonical charset (no matter the user's language environment).

OK, I've removed tis620-2533 on master, let's see if this breaks
anything.



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