Re: RFC: (set-xkb-cyrillic-charset "koi8-r") for non-Mule XEmacs

MB> This model of computing is a very common one in the world of MB> character sets smaller than 128. MB> It's a very "low-tech" way of achieving a multi-lingual editor. That's exactly what we need. High-tech is already implemented and is called Mule :) MB> You can have a function that sets the font for a default face for MB> a buffer by using specifiers with MB> (set-face-font 'default "*koi8" (current-buffer)) That won't work because your buffer will have one-byte characters in 8859-5, and there is no way in non-Mule to have different font encoding and characters encoding. Moreover, your files will be in 8859-5 encoding. Moreover, you could not open koi8-r file and edit it. Same shi^Wthing happens for some other languages I'm said (AFAIK, Czech have five commonly-used one-byte encodings, that's why Russian Apache is so popular there). MB> This allows you to implement the command MB> (defun toggle-cyrillic-mode (&optional buffer) (interactive) ...) MB> this technique, combined with the keyboard-translate or MB> function-key-map mechanisms (and xmodmap, of course), allows you MB> to have a complete russian (or ukranian, or hungarian, etc.) MB> environment with very little lisp hacking. I just want to reuse code that's already there. Your code :) --alexm