Re: Upcoming loss of usability of Emacs source files and Emacs.

[Nikolai Weibull]

On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 9:29 PM, Alan Mackenzie <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hello, Nikolai.
>
> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 08:22:58PM +0200, Nikolai Weibull wrote:
>> On Tue, Jun 23, 2015 at 3:22 PM, Oleh Krehel <address@hidden> wrote:
>
>> > Honestly, it's very weird to see "It’s" written by you, when I'm used to
>> > seeing "It's" in all electronic media (which accounts for 100% of my
>> > English usage).

>> As you yourself point out, this is due to you being a person who’s
>> only used English in a medium that for very long was severely limited
>> in expressive power (ASCII and ISO-8859-5?).

> ASCII and ISO-8859-1 are not even slightly limited in expressive power.
> Anything you can say in English can be expressed efficiently in these
> character sets.

That was *-5, not *-1.  My point was that it’s severely limited in
expressing anything outside of what’s required for English, and even
then it’s been very restrictive.