Re: changing the values of iso-8859-* charsets

Ben> but we can create all charsets with the proper indices and Ben> have `split-char' and `char-octet' generate the old, wrong Ben> indices and a new function do it right. suggestions for a Ben> new api to replace `make-char' and `split-char'? Why do we want this interface at all, aside from backward compatibility with legacy Mule? With Unicode inside, a `get-char-components' function must be set-valued or nondeterministic (it depends on some global precedence list), and (eq (list cs o1 o2) (get-char-components (make-char-from-components cs o1 o2))) is mostly false. `charset-of-char' and `octet-of-char' don't make sense as separate APIs, they must be generated together. As far as I can see, this is not something that can be done right. There are only different ways to do it wrong, none of which are very attractive to me. -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.