Re: Emacs Lisp's future

[David Kastrup]

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup writes:
>
>  > Binary is quite unpractical when you are working in a locale
>
> The Emacs source tree evidently doesn't *have* a locale in the
> relevant sense since it has multiple encodings.
>
>  > and the vast majority of output fits it.  Then you want to have
>  > things displayed according to locale and have that stuff which
>  > doesn't fit formatted as some sort of recognizable escape sequence.
>
> For Paul's example, I suppose binary would work just fine, since he's
> searching for ASCII and Emacs sources are probably over 95% ASCII.
>
> And in *my* locale, the whole locale concept sucks becaues no matter
> what locale I choose somewhere between 1/3 and 2/3 of the text (all
> perfectly intelligible Japanese) will be unreadable according to that
> locale.

And 100% illegible is better?

> The real world is stranger and more dangerous than you imagine.

Apparently.

-- 
David Kastrup