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23.3; Use utf-8 for writing abbrev file

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From: Andreas Röhler <andreas.roehler <at> easy-emacs.de>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#8308: 23.3; Use utf-8 for writing abbrev file
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 12:26:15 +0100

Am 21.03.2011 11:54, schrieb Eli Zaretskii:
>> From: Leo<sdl.web <at> gmail.com>
>> Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 18:01:17 +0800
>> Cc:
>>
>> Would you agree to use utf-8-emacs instead, which covers all characters.
>
> That's better, but the characters outside Unicode are still going to
> do bad things to any software except Emacs.  AFAIK, emacs-mule is a
> superset of iso-2022 in the same way as utf-8-emacs is a superset of
> utf-8.
>
>>> Can you tell what is the purpose of this change?
>>
>> Make abbrev file editable to other editors.
>
> If we are really keen on making the abbrev files editable to other
> editors, we should make sure they are encoded in some encoding that
> these other editors will understand.  That probably calls for using
> utf-8 for everything that's covered by Unicode, and using other
> appropriate encodings for characters outside Unicode.
>
>
>
>

Hi,

sounds interesting for me, as not just other editors are at stake AFAIU, 
but auto-generated abbrevs produced by programms.

These might be theme-specific, cover items of medicine, jura etc.
Could offer modes with preloaded abbrevs resp. to matter of writing.

Regards,

Andreas

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