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Re: [r6rs] no way to turn of coding: comment interpretation?
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Ludovic Courtès |
Subject: |
Re: [r6rs] no way to turn of coding: comment interpretation? |
Date: |
Tue, 08 Jun 2010 23:37:12 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.2 (gnu/linux) |
Hi,
Mike Gran <address@hidden> writes:
>> From: Marco Maggi <address@hidden>
>
>
>> It is an Emacs coding, UTF-8
>> with the suffix "-unix"
>> (explained in the
>> Emacs info doc node "Coding Systems")
>> which
>> means no end-of-line conversion and newline
>> to
>> separate lines.
>
> We talked about making a list of aliases between
> Emacs coding names and standard encoding names
> at one point.
Bruno Haible once argued that we should stick to IANA encoding names
rather than follow Emacs’ lead in defining new names:
http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/guile-devel/2009-11/msg00053.html
>From a practical viewpoint, though, it may make sense to allow more
Emacs encoding names in ‘coding:’ cookies, since these are an Emacs
thing anyway.
So, ‘file-encoding’ could be taught more encoding names than
‘set-port-encoding!’ (and it could be written in Scheme, too.)
WDYT?
Thanks,
Ludo’.