Re: Changing emacs20 to use latin1 encoding by default.

To: Debian Development <debian-devel@lists.debian.org>
Subject: Re: Changing emacs20 to use latin1 encoding by default.
From: Milan Zamazal <pdm@debian.org>
Date: 22 Nov 1998 17:49:35 +0100
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In-reply-to: Yann Dirson's message of "Mon, 16 Nov 1998 20:42:37 +0100 (CET)"
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>>>>> "YD" == Yann Dirson <ydirson@mygale.org> writes:

    YD> Well, we have such things like locale aliases in Linux, which
    YD> the current mechanism in emacs does not fully support IIRC.  ie
    YD> I don't think it really queries libc to know what encoding it
    YD> uses.

I think you're right.

    YD> Maybe such a setting would be better.

Probably, however it should be done in upstream sources, not as a Debian
specific setting, IMHO.

Milan Zamazal

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