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Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
Date: |
Mon, 06 Oct 2014 18:40:30 +0200 |
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Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
>> Cc: Mark H Weaver <address@hidden>, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden,
>> address@hidden, address@hidden
>> Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2014 17:33:21 +0200
>>
>> If an overlong UTF-8 byte sequence representing '"' is processed
>> transparently by Emacs, it will be reencoded into the original
>> afterwards and depending on the next processing stage might trip up
>> software afterwards.
>
> Indeed. But that's what is expected from an editor: not to change the
> stuff the user didn't touch.
>
>> Of course, it would have done equally so without Emacs (or GUILE) in
>> the middle.
>
> Right.
>
>> The solution obviously is to use a coding scheme for recoding that
>> does _not_ reproduce unencodable bytes.
>
> An editor such as Emacs cannot do that, I think.
It sure can. Saving with a different encoding system than the one one
started with is always an option. Not all encoding system variants need
to be lossless, and the choice how to treat non-encodable bytes can be
part of the coding system variant.
--
David Kastrup
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Mark H Weaver, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/07
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/07
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Mark H Weaver, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/06
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Richard Stallman, 2014/10/07
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/07