[COMMIT] Switch away from ISO 2022 for the ISO-8859 character sets.
Stephen J. Turnbull
turnbull at sk.tsukuba.ac.jp
Sat Dec 1 16:57:10 EST 2007
VETO
Aidan Kehoe writes:
>
> APPROVE COMMIT
>
> NOTE: This patch has been committed.
>
> It would perhaps have been a little nicer to use the Unicode mapping tables
> under etc/unicode-consortium for this, but it wouldn’t read any better.
This needs to be done eventually, but will probably happen en passant
with the move to Unicode internal coding.
> GNU provide iso-latin-[1-16]-with-esc. Might be worth considering, with an
> autoload infrastructure.
This must be done *immediately*, as otherwise there is no way to read
files that have inadvertantly been saved with ISO-2022 extensions.
There's no reason in 21.5 that you can't simply rename the builtins to
-with-esc and duplicate or alias the ones defined in
latin-euro-standards. Then the autoload feature (which will almost
surely be hard to implement fully because of the large number of
places in the C initialization code where coding systems are used) can
be added later.
If you find that too revolting, revert this change until you've
provided some way to read "XEmacs ISO-8859" files that contain
ISO-2022 designation sequences.
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