Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: I don’t think there’s any particular reason to believe that 8-bit characters are more likely to be meta characters than non-ASCII in that context; the eight-bit encodings, and in particular ISO-8859-1, are very very much established in every operating system in wide use. This wasn’t the case in 1985 or even 1990, sure, and given that the design decision made sense, but it is the case today. For an individual counterexample, most of my XEmacs-in-a-terminal work is on remote servers, especially doing web development, where the content is often Unicode, and there is value in being able to paste things from my local machine and not have encodings trashed. For the record, this default has annoyed me for as long as I’ve been aware of its existence. -- “Apart from the nine-banded armadillo, man is the only natural host of Mycobacterium leprae, although it can be grown in the footpads of mice.” -- Kumar & Clark, Clinical Medicine, summarising improbable leprosy research _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://lists.xemacs.org/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta