Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
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> Date: Tue, 09 May 2006 16:41:29 -0400
> 
>     > I do not know what those variables mean.  Do they affect the
>     > choice of coding system?  Or do they take effect by altering
>     > the meaning of a given coding system?
> 
>     They select the target character set.  When Emacs decodes text with
>     Latin or Cyrillic or Greek characters, it could produce either Unicode
>     charset or one of the ISO 8859 charsets.  These variables control
>     that.
> 
> I cannot determine clearly, from your response, the answer to my
> questions.  Do these variables affect the choice of coding system?  Or
> do they take effect by altering the meaning of a given coding system?
> 
> I think perhaps you are saying it is the latter, but I am not sure.

It's certainly not the former.  I didn't say it's the latter because
``the meaning of a coding system'' is something I cannot define
clearly.  Instead, I described what is the precise effect of using
these variables.