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Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes
From: |
Kenichi Handa |
Subject: |
Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes |
Date: |
Fri, 6 Sep 2002 13:46:36 +0900 (JST) |
In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> On Thu, 5 Sep 2002, Kenichi Handa wrote:
>> As Emacs-unicode unifies, for instance, character C1 of
>> charset CS1 and character C2 of CS2. So, so even if an
>> original iso-2022-7bit file uses the different byte sequence
>> to represent them, when emacs reads it and write, C2 will be
>> encoded by the same byte sequence as C1.
>>
>> It doesn't matter for Emacs because when Emacs reads that
>> file again, there's no difference.
> As an example of a situation where it does matter, consider this: you
> visit a file, edit some parts of it, then save it. It would be
> reasonable to expect that portions of the file you didn't change will
> compare equal to the original file. In other words, running `diff' on
> the original and the edited files will not show any changes in those line
> you didn't modify.
But, `diff' is another program. Emacs' ediff-files should
work well.
And, please note that even Emacs 21 don't preserve the same
byte sequence for iso-2022-7bit file in rare case. This
problem can actually be ignored only because such a case is
very very rare.
Anyway, I'm not claiming that we don't have to solve this
problem. Just I have more urgent tasks for the moment.
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, (continued)
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/05
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Kenichi Handa, 2002/09/06
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/09
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/19
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/25
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Eli Zaretskii, 2002/09/19
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/19
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/25
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes,
Kenichi Handa <=
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/05
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06
Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/04
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/05
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/05
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/05
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/06
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Dave Love, 2002/09/07
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Richard Stallman, 2002/09/08
- Re: please consider emacs-unicode for pervasive changes, Kenichi Handa, 2002/09/08