Re: [AUCTeX-devel] [AUCTeX] GNU AUCTeX 11.89.4 released to ELPA

[Mosè Giordano]

2016-05-22 18:06 GMT+02:00 Tassilo Horn <address@hidden>:
> Mosè Giordano <address@hidden> writes:
>
> Hi Mosè,
>
>>> Thereby, I've also converted our ChangeLog.1 to UTF-8 and removed the
>>> iconv pass from built-aux/gitlog-to-auctexlog because that apparently
>>> failed for me.  Seems like some recent commit had some non-ISO-8859-1
>>> encodable character in it (which is ok).
>>
>> XEmacs without MULE doesn't support UTF-8 encoding.
>
> Given the fact that XEmacs development has been discontinued,

Uh, I must have missed that news.

> I think we
> can stop supporting it actively.  It's probably too early to remove
> compatibility code, but I don't think it's worth the trouble to consider
> XEmacs support for new code at least.

I second it.

> Well, and in the concrete case, if one character in the ChangeLog shows
> up as \xxx or a box, I don't consider that a drama. :-)

Yes, that ChangeLog isn't completely unreadable in XEmacs, it just has
some weird characters in place of diacritics.

Bye,
Mosè