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Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO |
Date: |
Tue, 05 Aug 2008 21:12:54 +0300 |
> From: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Tue, 05 Aug 2008 16:33:06 +0900
>
> In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > > But is that the right way to categorize them? This character (and others
> > > around it) are not Japanese or Korean characters. They just happen to be
> > > included in those encodings. The same goes for Cyrillic and Greek
> > > characters.
>
> > I agree with Jason. I reported a similar curiosity the moment the
> > unicode-2 branch was merged with the trunk.
>
> We don't define the semantics of "category" clearly. We can
> think of the category name "Japanese" as "characters
> belonging to one of Japanese character set". Then that
> character surely have that cateogry. And, in Emacs 22, that
> kind of definition was surely useful.
>
> Although, I agree that such kind of definition is not
> appropriate now, I have no good idea about how to improve it
> without breaking backward compatibility.
I think the only meaningful categories are those defined by Unicode.
That is, a block of Cyrillic characters should have the cyrillic
category, the block of Japanese characters should have japanese
category, etc. The fact that the character is covered by some
ISO-2022 charset is not interesting in Emacs 23, unless I'm missing
something.
What kind of backward compatibility problems could we cause? Who or
what code depends on these categories?
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO (was: Re: segmentation fault displaying etc/HELLO on Windows), Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/01
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Jason Rumney, 2008/08/01
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/01
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/05
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Kenichi Handa, 2008/08/06
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Miles Bader, 2008/08/07
- Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO, Eli Zaretskii, 2008/08/07