Re: status of utf-8.el, etc [Re: Several serious problems]

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> Kenichi Handa <address@hidden> writes:
>>  >>  (1-2) utf-8-translate-cjk can never be turned off once
>>  >>  turned on.
>>  
>>  > I don't think it should be toggled;
>>  
>>  Then, why do we have this now?
>>      (defcustom utf-translate-cjk nil ...)

> It's there so that people can find the facility and have the option
> not to load it, since it involves quite large tables.

For such a case, isn't `feature' enough?  Those who want
this feature just does (require FEATURE).

>>  One may or may not want select-safe-coding-system to decide
>>  utf-8 as the default for a buffer that contains CJK charsets
>>  and etc.  I'm not sure.

> That should be taken care of by coding priorities, surely, just as
> with Mule-UCS.

Ah, hmmm, yes.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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