Subject: Re: bug#30405: 26.0.91; Incorrect apostrophe translation in ImageMagick error message

From: Richard Stallman <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 10 Feb 2018 16:30:55 -0500

[[[ To any NSA and FBI agents reading my email: please consider    ]]]
[[[ whether defending the US Constitution against all enemies,     ]]]
[[[ foreign or domestic, requires you to follow Snowden's example. ]]]

  > This made sense back in the 1990s when unibyte was commonly used for text. 
  > Nowadays, though, wouldn't it make more sense to keep the echo area multibyte? 
  > The echo area is intended for text, not for binary data.

I agree in principle.  But I don't know how much work the change would
be.

-- 
Dr Richard Stallman
President, Free Software Foundation (https://gnu.org, https://fsf.org)
Internet Hall-of-Famer (https://internethalloffame.org)
Skype: No way! See https://stallman.org/skype.html.