From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>
Subject: Re: "Coding system"? Eh?
Date: 05 Sep 1998 23:12:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3soi6cli6.fsf@sparky.gnus.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "05 Sep 1998 22:45:33 +0200"
Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 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.
They do that? And if the unzipped file results in something that's
iso-2022-jp, do they run it though the decoding twice, or do they have
a gzip-iso-2022-jp coding system, as Morioka almost suggested for
base64? (base64-iso-2022-jp, etc.) The latter would be a nightmare,
and the former would be just yucky.
> 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.
Hm. I did a `M-x list-coding-systems', and it listed nothing but
character sets.
--
(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-09-05 21:12 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
1998-09-05 21:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen [this message]
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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