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[PATCH] slow ENCODE_FILE and DECODE_FILE

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Message #95 received at 40407 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
Cc: 40407 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, handa <at> gnu.org, hirofumi <at> mail.parknet.co.jp
Subject: Re: bug#40407: [PATCH] slow ENCODE_FILE and DECODE_FILE
Date: Mon, 06 Apr 2020 20:18:05 +0300

> From: Mattias Engdegård <mattiase <at> acm.org>
> Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2020 18:55:30 +0200
> Cc: hirofumi <at> mail.parknet.co.jp, handa <at> gnu.org, 40407 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> 6 apr. 2020 kl. 18.33 skrev Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>:
> 
> > I think it might be just some convenience thing: utf-7 and utf-8 have
> > something in common that made it convenient to treat them the same in
> > the internal routines.  Or maybe it's just an accident.
> 
> There is nothing common between utf-7 and utf-8 at all (apart from a subset of ASCII being encoded in the same way, and the fact that both encode the Unicode repertoire).

By "in common" in this context I meant from the POV of internal
treating of the two encodings.

> > I don't think 'charset' is the right type for this encoding (any
> > reason why you've chosen it?), but I will let Handa-san comment.
> 
> We could use 'raw-text' as well but that implies that any byte value could be part of an utf-7[-imap] text, which is incorrect.
> In fact, utf-7-imap only uses codes 0x20-0x7e (utf-7 is allowed to use a few C0 controls too, as mentioned).
> 
> Arguably the heuristics of define-coding-system-internal are somewhat inscrutable. There seems to be leaks between layers -- ascii-compatible-p is an end-to-end property and cannot really be set the way it is by that function. But since it is, fixing it afterwards should be the correct way.

I prefer to wait for Handa-san's response, and meanwhile install the
least disruptive change, which just fixes the one aspect that got
broken.  Call me a coward, if you wish.

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