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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'e
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Stefan Monnier |
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Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset |
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Sat, 28 Jul 2018 12:49:10 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> I know and understand what this charset is for. Yet I don't see why
>> eight-bit-control chars should be reported as belonging to this charset
>> (any more than they should be reported to belong to any of the other
>> charsets to which they may also belong, such as all the iso8859
>> charsets).
>
> Because ISO-8859 charsets don't include bytes between 128 and 159
> (inclusive), I guess.
According to the info I found, tis620 doesn't include those codes either
(and doesn't include 160 either, contrary to iso8859-11 which is
otherwise identical).
> We actually don't want to expose eight-bit-control to users at all, we
> want there to be a single charset called 'eight-bit' covering all the
> raw bytes.
Fair enough, then the chars in eight-bit-control should have `eight-bit`
as their canonical charset (no matter the user's language environment).
Stefan
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, (continued)
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Robert Pluim, 2018/07/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Andreas Schwab, 2018/07/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Stefan Monnier, 2018/07/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/27
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Stefan Monnier, 2018/07/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset,
Stefan Monnier <=
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/28
- Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Andreas Schwab, 2018/07/28
Re: [Emacs-diffs] emacs-26 0feb673: Display raw bytes as belonging to 'eight-bit' charset, Eli Zaretskii, 2018/07/27