From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16937 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hallvard B Furuseth Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Coding system"? Eh? Date: 11 Sep 1998 18:14:17 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155727 30759 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:15:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:15:27 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: from gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (gizmo.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.102.31]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id MAA15183 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:16:47 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu (sina.hpc.uh.edu [129.7.3.5]) by gizmo.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.6/8.7.3) with ESMTP id KAF11786; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 10:47:29 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:14:52 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (root@sclp3.sclp.com [209.195.19.139]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id LAA07485 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 11:14:44 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from pat.uio.no (6089@pat.uio.no [129.240.130.16]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id MAA15159 for ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 12:14:38 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: from bombur2.uio.no (actually bombur2.uio.no [129.240.200.72]) by pat.uio.no with SMTP (PP); Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:14:19 +0200 Original-Received: by bombur2.uio.no ; Fri, 11 Sep 1998 18:14:17 +0200 (MET DST) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: François Pinard's message of "Thu, 10 Sep 1998 09:08:22 GMT" Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16937 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:16937 [Michael Welsh Duggan] > No, not really. A character set is merely a set of characters. > [...] A coding-system is just that: a coding-system. [François Pinard] > I'm no specialist, but my impression is that MULE does not makes such a > clear separation. Internally, each Mule "character" (I'm not sure of the > terminology) holds information about both the code and its encoding. That's sort of true for *latin-N* characters sets in MULE: They have a "natural" encoding which is equivalent to the character set. However, two other Cyrillic coding systems map map to (subsets of) the MULE character set latin-iso8859-9 (that's latin-5). And it's not that way for asian MULE character sets, I think even a single MULE character can have several encodings in the same coding system (iso2022 or whatever). -- Hallvard