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By author: Dave Love <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
In newsgroup: linux.utf8
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> > The mapping between locale names and encodings should really
> > be left to where it belongs, namely the C library.
>
> If it changes there, Emacs users could be messed up. Apart from the
> effect on using existing data, they may be surprised when creating new
> files and they'd probably find themselves using the wrong input
> method.
>
If Emacs does something different than the rest of the system, Emacs
users could be severely and very painfully SHAFTED. Unfortunately I
have found that since MULE was integrated in Emacs 20, Emacs cannot be
guaranteed to be safe to use in a monolingual environment, especially
when you're having to deal with files with mixed binary and text data.
This, in my opinion, is a just hugely enormous braindamage introduced
into my favourite editor.
-hpa
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