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Re: utf-8 cut/paste
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Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: utf-8 cut/paste |
Date: |
26 May 2004 16:02:59 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 |
>> cp1252 could have been implemented as another charset rather than being
>> mapped to a mix of 8859-1 and unicode chars.
> If we did that, it would make the unfortunate situation, whereby there
> are multiple charsets that cover the same characters, even worse.
Isn't it exactly what happened with 8859-15 ?
I never claimed it was desirable.
> Repeat after me: "multiple character sets covering the same characters
> are BAD."
You're just saying that unicode is good.
The only point I originally tried to make is that it's better to avoid
talking about Mule charsets if possible.
Stefan
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, (continued)
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Miles Bader, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, David Kastrup, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Benjamin Riefenstahl, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Sam Steingold, 2004/05/27
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Stefan Monnier, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/26
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: utf-8 cut/paste, Eli Zaretskii, 2004/05/27