Re: [Markus Kuhn <Markus.Kuhn@cl.cam.ac.uk>] UTF-8 support in xemacs
Didier Verna <didier(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Markus, some other people on the list will probably give you
a more
precise answer, so I'm forwarding this to them.
Forwarding it to xemacs-mule would probably have been more
appropriate. I don't know what you already told Markus, so I give him
an imprecise answer anyway.
Hi Markus,
I have recently extended the X11 "fixed" font to a
repertoire
of over 2800 ISO 10646-1 characters, which is now available from
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs-fonts.html
OK Nice.
have already added it. More information about using Unicode
and the ASCII compatible UTF-8 encoding are on the above
web page, and it would be really nice if xemacs would one day
decide to join the ISO 10646-1 club.
Well 21.2.x (the development series) contains support (in theory) of
UTF8, (maybe UTF7), UCS16 and full ISO 10646-1, both on input, displaz
and output. In theory it should be complete (it is just another coding
system as far as Emacs is concerned). For me it works on simple stuff
(I can read in an UTF8 encoded file and have it display correctly even
using non unicoded fonts).
There still are some problems with it
1. It needs to load some huge conversions tables and that is a
torture test for the lisp loading code in itself.
2. AFAIK it is untested for real work. This is mostly because there
is an extreme scarcity of real world unicode/UTF8 encode files.
I also am not sure the display side has been tested, something for you?
Jan