"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
For non-Mule XEmacs, I agree with you and Hrvoje: it must be the
traditional "fill column is a hard limit and trailing whitespace is
always trimmed". Old-timers are used to it, newbies learn it very
fast, and it is compatible with typical coding standards.
For Japanese, it must be kinsoku. What to do with space is
problematic; since removing embedded spaces is destroying
intentionally introduced textual data, we should default to leaving
them in.
I have no problem with that if, as was suggested before, character set
checks (or even manual variable settings) are employed to determine whether
kinsoku is appropriate.
What is not appropriate is breaking auto-fill for all Western languages just
because one's XEmacs was built with Mule (which, for instance, a sysadmin
wanting to make the installation useful for as many users as possible might
do, even if nobody at the site was ever destined to use Japanese).
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