Re: standard-display-european

[Reiner Steib]

[ Following up to an old discussion; see
  <URL:http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/58308>
  for more. ]

> Reiner Steib wrote:
>> My impression is that most people don't really want
>> `standard-display-european'.  They only have it in their init files
>> because it was useful (for Europeans) in Emacs 19 (or earlier?).
>> There were many reports in newsgroups during the last years about
>> "Emacs doesn't treat Umlaut characters correctly"; IIRC all were
>> perfectly happy after removing `standard-display-european' from their
>> init file.

Stefan Monnier wrote:
> Completely agreed.  We've actually changed standard-display-european in
> Emacs-CVS to make fewer changes (to be closer to just setting up a latin-1
> environment), but we should probably go yet a bit further.
> The main problem is that it changed the default value of
> enable-multibyte-characters (i.e. it puts Emacs in unibyte mode).
> I suggest we get rid of this part of standard-display-european.

On Mon, Aug 23 2004, Richard Stallman wrote:
>     The main problem is that it changed the default value of
>     enable-multibyte-characters (i.e. it puts Emacs in unibyte mode).
>     I suggest we get rid of this part of standard-display-european.
>
> Ok, let's try that.

Apparently nobody actually made the change.

Is it okay to install this change?

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
--- disp-table.el       25 Aug 2005 14:38:34 +0200      1.56
+++ disp-table.el       31 Aug 2005 11:39:29 +0200      
@@ -220,8 +220,10 @@
        (unless (or (memq window-system '(x w32)))
          (and (terminal-coding-system)
               (set-terminal-coding-system nil))))
-    ;; Turn off multibyte chars for more compatibility.
-    (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
+
+    (display-warning 'i18n
+                    "`standard-display-european' is semi-obsolete"
+                    :warning)
 
     ;; Switch to Latin-1 language environment
     ;; unless some other has been specified.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

Bye, Reiner.
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