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Re: [mew-int 00737] Re: (no subject)
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Kenichi Handa |
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Re: [mew-int 00737] Re: (no subject) |
Date: |
Mon, 25 Feb 2002 16:10:20 +0900 (JST) |
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SEMI/1.14.3 (Ushinoya) FLIM/1.14.2 (Yagi-Nishiguchi) APEL/10.2 Emacs/21.1.30 (sparc-sun-solaris2.6) MULE/5.0 (SAKAKI) |
Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> Handa-san, it sounds like the new encoding with ICCM Extended Segments
> support should not be called ctext, because ctext is used in file I/O, at
> least by Mew. It sounds like we should leave ctext as it was working
> before, including the fact that it didn't support the ICCCM Extended
> Segments, and use another name (e.g., compound-text-with-extensions) for
> the new coding system. We will then have to make that new coding system
> be the default for X selections in CVS head.
> Do you agree?
>> So, to my best knowledge, ctext is only the character set which can
>> survive in the old Emacs world and the multilingual Emacs world.
> It was IMHO an unfortunate decision to use ctext for file I/O, since
> ctext must support the ICCCM spec which is inappropriate for encoding
> anything but X selections. However, given that Mew uses that for quite
> some time, Emacs shouldn't break it, I think.
Considering this situation, I agree with the name change.
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Ken'ichi HANDA
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