From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/16728 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: "Coding system"? Eh? Date: 05 Sep 1998 23:12:01 +0200 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035155553 29540 80.91.224.250 (20 Oct 2002 23:12:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 20 Oct 2002 23:12:33 +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 RAA08602 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:35:05 -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 QAF16227; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 16:06:06 -0500 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Sat, 05 Sep 1998 16:34:54 -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 QAA14621 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 16:34:32 -0500 (CDT) Original-Received: from sparky.gnus.org (ppp054.uio.no [129.240.240.55]) by sclp3.sclp.com (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id RAA08576 for ; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 17:34:11 -0400 (EDT) Original-Received: (from larsi@localhost) by sparky.gnus.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id XAA24209; Sat, 5 Sep 1998 23:37:13 +0200 Mail-Copies-To: never X-Now-Reading: Jack Dann (ed.)'s _Nova Awards 32_ Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: Hrvoje Niksic's message of "05 Sep 1998 22:45:33 +0200" X-Mailer: Pterodactyl Gnus v0.17/Emacs 20.3 X-Face: &w!^oO~dS|}-P0~ge{$c!h\ 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