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Re: [PATCH] Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Gnus; Restore multi encoding support for NNTP |
Date: |
Sat, 01 Jan 2022 11:35:06 +0200 |
> Date: Sat, 01 Jan 2022 17:26:00 +0800
> From: LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com>
> Cc: LdBeth <andpuke@foxmail.com>,
> eric@ericabrahamsen.net,
> larsi@gnus.org,
> emacs-devel@gnu.org
>
> >>>>> In <83mtkfg7g1.fsf@gnu.org>
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>
> >> Eli> If by "using UTF-8 internally" you mean the internal representation of
> >> Eli> buffer text and strings, then encoding is still needed for correct
> >> Eli> handling of codepoints outside of Unicode.
> >>
> >> Gnus already uses `utf-8-emacs' coding to save the newsrc.eld file for
> >> a while. According to the Elisp manual, that is the coding system
> >> that can handle the internal codepoints used by Emacs.
>
> Eli> You are saying that encoding by utf-8-emacs is a no-op? AFAIR, that's
> Eli> not true.
>
> I mean, there should be no problem `prin1' any emacs strings to a file
> saved using utf-8-emacs coding, and correctly `read' them back given
> the file has `-*- coding: utf-8-emacs -*-` header line.
That's fine. I thought you were suggesting not to encode the text
written to a file at all. Apologies for my misunderstanding.