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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 19:04:10 +0200

> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2017 11:10:33 +0100
> From: <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
> Yes, Emacs is the text specialist.
> 
> It has taken years and a bunch of very smart, experienced and *patient*
> folks to achieve that.

It took many years because those smart, experienced, and patient
people made bad decisions, twice, and had to correct them later, which
required rewriting several important internal mechanisms.  Which tells
you that smarts, experience, and patience are not enough to get this
right the first time.

But Guile doesn't need to go through all that, it can just use what
Emacs learned the hard way.

> But then Emacs has users who don't run away screaming when the GUI
> widget shows funky stuff.

Oh yes, they did.  How they did!  Those screams are the reason why the
stuff was rewritten.

Once again, Guile doesn't need to go through all that, it just needs
to learn from others' experience.

> Perhaps the Emacs approach might be the right one for Guile?

For some reason, Guile developers are not necessarily convinced,
AFAIU.



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