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Re: Emacs Lisp's future
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David Kastrup |
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Re: Emacs Lisp's future |
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Mon, 13 Oct 2014 20:04:18 +0200 |
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"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
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, (continued)
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Paul Eggert, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, David Kastrup, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/13
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Eli Zaretskii, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Paul Eggert, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Stephen J. Turnbull, 2014/10/14
- Re: Emacs Lisp's future, Paul Eggert, 2014/10/15