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Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes.
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes. |
Date: |
Tue, 20 Jun 2006 11:37:25 +0900 |
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In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
>> Date: Sun, 18 Jun 2006 18:11:06 +0200
>> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
>>
>> > Coding systems already replace unsupported characters with `?' (other
>> > applications behave like that as well), so perhaps we should use some
>> > more conventional character here.
>> > Does anyone have an opinion?
>>
>> Perhaps, indeed.
> Handa-san, could you please comment on this issue?
At first, coding system (utf-8) doesn't replace unsupported
characters with '?' on decoding. It preserves the original
byte sequence and attaches a special text property to
display it the Unicode replacement character U+FFFD.
But, as we can't do that in read_escape, I propose to simply
signal an error as unsupported character. I think anything
else leads to unexpected behavior.
---
Kenichi Handa
address@hidden
- [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Aidan Kehoe, 2006/06/03
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Aidan Kehoe, 2006/06/15
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/06/17
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Aidan Kehoe, 2006/06/18
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/06/18
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes.,
Kenichi Handa <=
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Richard Stallman, 2006/06/20
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Aidan Kehoe, 2006/06/23
- Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes., Eli Zaretskii, 2006/06/24