Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-11-06 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Sun, 03 Nov 2002 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Janusz S. Bień wrote: [...] > > In my opinion this is unacceptable. If there is no quick way out, > > x-symbol after installation should be disabled by default, and > > interested users should enable it locally, without affecting oth

RE: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-11-04 Thread Wedler, Christoph
> I am afraid you missed my point. The site-wide installation of > x-symbol forces innocent users :-) to change the way how they process > their perfectly legal TeX files. They have either edit them to > provide x-symbol specific local variables or to use specific locale > even if they regula

RE: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-11-04 Thread Wedler, Christoph
Steve Dunham wrote: > Janusz S. Bie? wrote: >>> * their system does not have the locale command >> The LaTeX commands should be sufficient for a LaTeX documents. Aren't we talking about an editor add-on here (also used for writing LaTeX documents)? As I said, see the manual for details. >>>

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-11-03 Thread Steve Dunham
Janusz S. Bień wrote: On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Janusz S. Bień wrote: Thanks for quick answer. I can't reproduce the problem with the version of x-symbol in unstable/testing (4.43-4). I am afraid you missed my point. The site-wide installation of x-symbol forces

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-11-02 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Janusz S. Bień wrote: > > Thanks for quick answer. > > I can't reproduce the problem with the version of x-symbol in > unstable/testing (4.43-4). I am afraid you missed my point. The site-wide installation of x-symbol forces innocent

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Dunham
Janusz S. Bień wrote: Thanks for quick answer. I can't reproduce the problem with the version of x-symbol in unstable/testing (4.43-4). I tried it with emacs21 and LANG=pl_PL. The saved file is identical to the loaded one. Janusz, can you test it? The package is at: http://http.us.debian.org/deb

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Janusz S. Bień
Thanks for quick answer. On Thu, 31 Oct 2002 Steve Dunham <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Janusz S. Bień wrote: > > Are you on the debian-emacsen list? > > Ok, I'm on it now. Can you please send me a copy of the > files that demonstrate the problem? And a description of > what happens. I send

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Dunham
Janusz S. Bień wrote: Are you on the debian-emacsen list? Ok, I'm on it now. Can you please send me a copy of the files that demonstrate the problem? And a description of what happens. Also, the best way to bring a bug to the attention of the Debian package maintainer is to file a bug report. Th

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Steve Dunham
Janusz S. Bień wrote: Steve, Are you on the debian-emacsen list? I'm not on the list. I'll read through though this thread and subscribe to the list. Does the problem occur with the version in testing? I did a bit of work/debugging on the package since the one in woody. Steve [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Janusz S. Bień
Steve, Are you on the debian-emacsen list? On 31 Oct 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Janusz S. Bień) wrote: > On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 "Wedler, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > [...] > > > If you use the `setq' mentioned at the beginning, your problem should > > disappear. > > The problem i

RE: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Wedler, Christoph
>> If you use the `setq' mentioned at the beginning, your problem should >> disappear. > The problem is not only mine and it is general. It's general for all people where ALL of the following conditions are true: * they have a non-latin-1 default coding system (or read files with the codi

Re: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-31 Thread Janusz S. Bień
On Wed, 30 Oct 2002 "Wedler, Christoph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: [...] > If you use the `setq' mentioned at the beginning, your problem should > disappear. The problem is not only mine and it is general. If you install x-symbol package on Debian system on the request of a user, some other us

RE: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-30 Thread Wedler, Christoph
> x-symbol-default-coding 'iso-8859-1 You should use (setq x-symbol-default-coding 'iso-8859-2) X-Symbol tries to set it automatically by using the shell command locale. The next version (v4.4.4) will also inspect the variables `current-language-environment'/`language-info-alist' if present

RE: x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-30 Thread Wedler, Christoph
Bug fixes, bug reports, improvements, and suggestions are strongly appreciated. Please read section *Note Bug Reports:: if you want to contact the maintainer of package X-Symbol. > If you open the enclosed `alfabet1.tex' file and save it as > `alfabet2.tex', then you get rubbish in the secon

x-symbol package dangerous in multibyte environment

2002-10-30 Thread Janusz S. Bień
If you open the enclosed `alfabet1.tex' file and save it as `alfabet2.tex', then you get rubbish in the second file. You should check the value of `enable-multibyte-characters' and in multibyte buffers encoding/decoding should be switched off completely. However, you can still use `x-symbol-tex-