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Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.


From: tomas
Subject: Re: display.texi: (<line>,<col>) isn't documented.
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2007 08:26:22 +0000
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On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 06:25:01PM +0100, Alan Mackenzie wrote:
> 'n Tag, Tomas!

Tagchen!

> On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 08:23:35AM +0000, address@hidden wrote:
> > On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 12:19:47AM +0100, Alan Mackenzie wrote:

> > One definitive disadvantage of the "Lnnn Cnnn" format [...]
> > is that they are not very internatinalization-friendly

> I don't agree.  I think that the "L" and the "C" aren't really understood
> as letters: they're kind of uninterpreted symbols.

Makes sense. My argument was "all other things being equal, prefer
language-agnostic constructs". But other things ain't equal. The
alternatives proposed so far all have their own disadvantages.

[...]

> That I want Emacs optimised for left-to-right European languages and
> culture.  ;-) [...]
>                      We shouldn't try
> to find a compromise solution which would satisfy nobody.

Fair enough

Thanks
- -- tomás
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