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Re: windows-1251 language environment
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: windows-1251 language environment |
Date: |
10 Oct 2003 13:42:42 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> For instance, in such a case, we can allow people to create
>> a new lang. env. by inheriting, for instance, Russian, and
>> modifying coding-system to windows-1251.
> Is this actually better than allowing them to specify (the equivalent
> of) the locale ru_RU.windows-1251?
Completely agreed. Locales are pretty limited, but language environments
even more so. And locales are more likely to be already properly setup
(for other applications).
Language environments might make sense internally, but I think we should
encourage people to configure their Emacs by doing:
- 1st and foremost, set your locale properly, or call
`set-locale-environment' in your .emacs.
- If that's not quite right, fix the parts you don't like directly
by specifying preferred coding systems, preferred language for tutorial,
preferred input systems, ...
Also I wonder what would be the point of doing:
(define-derived-language "foo" "bar"
bla bla bla)
(set-language-environment "foo")
rather than
(set-language-environment "bar")
bla bla bla
Or do you expect define-derived-language to be used elsewhere than in
a .emacs ?
Stefan
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, (continued)
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Kenichi Handa, 2003/10/15
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/15
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/16
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Stefan Monnier, 2003/10/16
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2003/10/17
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/21
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/20
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/16
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Kenichi Handa, 2003/10/28
Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/10
- Re: windows-1251 language environment,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/12
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/14
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/15
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/20
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/22
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/25
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Alex Schroeder, 2003/10/26
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Kenichi Handa, 2003/10/28
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Richard Stallman, 2003/10/27
- Re: windows-1251 language environment, Dave Love, 2003/10/28