Re: Patch: add conversion from pg_wchar to multibyte

> Well, when the preceding comment block contains five references to
> xemacs and the link for more information leads to www.xemacs.org,
> I don't think it's real helpful to add one sentence saying "oh
> by the way we're not actually following xemacs".
>
> I continue to think that we'd be better off to follow the xemacs
> spec, as the subdivisions the emacs spec is insisting on seem like
> entirely useless complication. The only possible reason for doing
> it the emacs way is that it would provide room for twice as many
> charset IDs ... but the present design for wchar conversion destroys
> that advantage, because it requires the charset ID spaces to be
> nonoverlapping anyhow. Moreover, it's not apparent to me that
> charset standards are still proliferating, so I doubt that we need
> any more ID space.

Well, we have been following emacs spec, not xemacs spec from the day
0. I don't see any value to switch to xemacs way at this moment,
because I think the reason why we support particular encoding is, to
keep on supporting existing user data, not "enhance" our internal
architecture.

If you like xeamcs's spec, I think you'd better add new encoding,
rather than break data compatibility.
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Tatsuo Ishii
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