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Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes


From: Kenichi Handa
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes
Date: Thu, 11 May 2006 21:51:24 +0900
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In article <address@hidden>, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>> It's just a lot of work for very little benefit: people have lived
>> with this problem for a while now and haven't found the workarounds to
>> be serious (basically: don't use utf-8 for those files and don't use
>> unify-8859-on-decoding if you manipulate such files).

>> I don't follow.  Are you saying that this problem only occurs
>> for utf-8 encoding?

> IIRC such tables are used either during encoding to unicode (i.e. if you
> save as utf-8) or upon decoding (but only if you've enabled
> unify-8859-on-decoding).  My memory is fuzzy, tho.

unify-8859-on-decoding-mode affects iso-8859-* coding
systems.  If it is on, characters in a file of those coding
systems are decoded into iso-8859-1 or
mule-unicode-0100-24FF.  That's the meaning "unify 8859".

---
Kenichi Handa
address@hidden




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