Adding m17n to 3.7/4.0 (was Re: About 3.7)

goran.krampe at bluefish.se goran.krampe at bluefish.se
Mon Dec 8 08:28:20 UTC 2003


Hi all!

Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
>   Doug,
> 
>   I would prefer option #1.  Probably more people will test it
> earlier, and if they don't like it so much, we can back it out and
> pretend nothing had happened before the major version up^^;
> 
>   Having different encodings for sources and changes doesn't matter
> too much even for the program that read and write .sources and
> .changes.  Such programs don't write into .sources and wouldn't have
> made any assumptions of the relation ship between the chunk size in
> file and in memory, because it has been different due to the text
> attributes.
> 
>   Yes, Japanese font can be in different package and we can put font
> unload mechanism to shrink the image.
> 
>   As I wrote, I'd try to work on this around the new year time.
> 
> -- Yoshiki

I think this sounds like a great plan. So... go for it! :) And it will
be really good to get m17n into the mainstream.

regards, Göran



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