From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.cygnus.argh.org>
Subject: Re: more multibyte bugs
Date: 05 May 2000 14:34:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87itwtrx9h.fsf@deneb.cygnus.argh.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Vladimir Volovich's message of "05 May 2000 12:57:17 +0400"
Vladimir Volovich <vvv@vvv.vsu.ru> writes:
> Am i right that mule will _by design_ interpret combinations of 8-bit
> octets which form multibyte characters as multibyte characters in a
> multibyte buffer regardless of the coding system settings?
Yes, some Emacs MULE guru confirmed it in an earlier posting to this
list, I think.
> In this case, it seems that ALL gnus buffers which are supposed to
> contain arbitrary 8-bit text must be unibyte.
If this can't be done (because making a buffer unibyte is some kind
of global thing), one could add a special coding system designed for
encoding raw bytes in the range 16#80# .. 16#FF#.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2000-05-05 12:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2000-05-05 8:57 Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-05 12:34 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2000-05-05 18:32 ` Vladimir Volovich
2000-05-06 7:10 ` Florian Weimer
2000-05-05 15:23 ` Shenghuo ZHU
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