Re: RFC: generic support for single-byte encodings in non-Mule XEmacs

Hrvoje> "Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: Hrvoje> The term "character" is pretty well defined in XEmacs, so Hrvoje> `character-representation' would probably do it. Much better, thanks! Who's the native speaker, here, anyway?! An alternative would be `text-representation', as Ben is planning on abstracting common aspects of character, string, and buffer representation into "src/text.[ch]." Hrvoje> I would prefer to wait until a degree of maturity, if not Hrvoje> popularity, is reached. That didn't stop the disgusting hack[1] known as "package-get.el" from becoming part of the core. :-( Footnotes: [1] I'm referring only to the utter dependence on EFS. There are parts of the explicit code in the library that aren't to my taste, but no way are they "disgusting." -- University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences Tel/fax: +81 (298) 53-5091 _________________ _________________ _________________ _________________ What are those straight lines for? "XEmacs rules."