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From: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr>
Subject: Re: "Coding system"?  Eh?
Date: 05 Sep 1998 22:45:33 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <kig1zpqthjm.fsf@jagor.srce.hr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "05 Sep 1998 22:07:43 +0200"

Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> iso-8859-1, which MULE calls a coding system, is something everyone
> else calls a character set.  The same with old-jis and iso-2022-jp.

I believe Michael's point was that, under Mule, you can create coding
systems that have nothing to do with character sets, such as a `gzip'
coding-system.  Coding systems are Emacs-specific hybrids between
character sets and their external representation.  This probably makes
them different enough from "character sets" to warrant for a separate
name.

-- 
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> | Student at FER Zagreb, Croatia
--------------------------------+--------------------------------
Try to use "ad nauseam" at least once per flame. It doesn't mean
anything; but it gives that polished feel to your postings.


  reply	other threads:[~1998-09-05 20:45 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
1998-09-05 16:01 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 16:31 ` Michael Welsh Duggan
1998-09-05 20:07   ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 20:45     ` Hrvoje Niksic [this message]
1998-09-05 21:12       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-05 21:47         ` Hrvoje Niksic
1998-09-07 15:12     ` David Kågedal
1998-09-09 18:50       ` François Pinard
1998-09-10 12:45         ` David Kågedal
1998-09-10 20:21           ` Gisle Aas
1998-09-11  6:27             ` François Pinard
1998-09-11  6:16           ` François Pinard
1998-09-11 16:14         ` Hallvard B Furuseth
2002-10-20 23:13       ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-09-09 18:59         ` François Pinard

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