Re: RFC: generic support for single-byte encodings in non-Mule XEmacs
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
How about 'buffer-representation? Yes, the elements of a buffer
are
always characters, but using "character" drags a lot of stuff (coded
character sets, in particular) with it.
The term "character" is pretty well defined in XEmacs, so
`character-representation' would probably do it.
buffer-representation sucks because characters are also applicable to
strings, streams, etc.
I agree with this. I think that probably you can and should do all
of
this with a package. The package could work with Mule by simply
forcing all file I/O to 'binary, I bet.
Or, if the package is general enough, it could simply turn on the
appropriate Mule magic behind the scenes in order to produce the same
effect as the same commands had under no-Mule.
Except for one thing. There's no reason to wait for your package
to
become immensely popular; we can include it immediately. :-)
I would prefer to wait until a degree of maturity, if not popularity,
is reached.