Re: coding system

[Reiner Steib]

On Sun, Mar 27 2005, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> That is precisely so: Emacs 21.x treats Latin-N character sets as
> disjoint, so they are represented by different codes internally.
>
> The CVS version introduces features (unification on en- and decoding)
> that make this distinction less visible, and work is under way on a
> Unicode-based Emacs where the distinction will go away entirely.

In case you refer to `unify-8859-on-{en,de}coding-mode', those are
already included in Emacs 21.3 and 21.4 (but not in 21.1 and 21.2):

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| ** Translation tables are available between equivalent characters in
| different Emacs charsets -- for instance `e with acute' coming from the
| Latin-1 and Latin-2 charsets.  User options `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode'
| and `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' respectively turn on translation
| between ISO 8859 character sets (`unification') on encoding
| (e.g. writing a file) and decoding (e.g. reading a file).  Note that
| `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' is useful and safe, but
| `unify-8859-on-decoding-mode' can cause text to change when you read
| it and write it out again without edits, so it is not generally advisable.
| By default `unify-8859-on-encoding-mode' is turned on.
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Bye, Reiner.
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