From bb4b511c4c63762bfd3b96623323a882cc57ecb6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Eli Zaretskii Date: Sat, 8 Jul 2023 11:47:32 +0300 Subject: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Document changes to coding-system mnemonics. --- etc/NEWS | 15 +++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 15 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 1a86c9e55e2..52ee07dc54b 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -556,6 +556,21 @@ assertion only (which is useless). For historical compatibility, an operator character following '^' or '\`' becomes literal, but we advise against relying on this. +--- +*** Mode-line mnemonics for some coding-systems have changed. +The mode-line mnemonic for 'utf-7' is now the lowercase 'u', to be +consistent with the other encodings of this family. + +The mode-line mnemonic for 'koi8-u' is now 'У', U+0423 CYRILLIC +CAPITAL LETTER U, to distinguish between this encoding and the +UTF-8/UTF-16 family. + +If your terminal cannot display 'У', or if you want to get the old +behavior back for any other reason, you can do that using the +'coding-system-put' function. For example, the following restores the +previous behavior of showing 'U' in the mode line for 'koi8-u': + + (coding-system-put 'koi8-u :mnemonic ?U) * Lisp Changes in Emacs 30.1 -- 2.39.5