XEmacs 21.5.x cannot display U+FFFD correctly. In "normal" text files, a wrong glyph is shown, in web-pages viewed with w3m.el only garbage Chinese characters are shown after the first occurence of U+FFFD. The problem seems to be that XEmacs maps U+FFFD to Big5: (split-char (string-to-char (decode-coding-string "\357\277\275" 'utf-8))) => (chinese-big5-1 35 110) and the reason for this seems to be that BIG5.TXT in the XEmacs sources (which comes originally from Unicode.org) maps several Big5 characters to U+FFFD. # WARNING! It is currently impossible to provide round-trip compatibility # between BIG5 and Unicode. # # A number of characters are not currently mapped because # of conflicts with other mappings. They are as follows: # # BIG5 Description Comments # # 0xA15A SPACING UNDERSCORE duplicates A1C4 # 0xA1C3 SPACING HEAVY OVERSCORE not in Unicode # 0xA1C5 SPACING HEAVY UNDERSCORE not in Unicode # 0xA1FE LT DIAG UP RIGHT TO LOW LEFT duplicates A2AC # 0xA240 LT DIAG UP LEFT TO LOW RIGHT duplicates A2AD # 0xA2CC HANGZHOU NUMERAL TEN conflicts with A451 mapping # 0xA2CE HANGZHOU NUMERAL THIRTY conflicts with A4CA mapping # # We currently map all of these characters to U+FFFD REPLACEMENT CHARACTER. # It is also possible to map these characters to their duplicates, or to # the user zone. To verify this, I made the attached patch which comments out all lines which map Big5 characters to U+FFFD. With this patch, U+FFFD is displayed correctly in plain text files (tested with an Xft build of XEmacs and a suitable font which has a glyph for U+FFFD). With this patch, web-pages containing U+FFFD are "mostly" correctly displayed with w3m.el. "mostly" because U+FFFD is displayed as '???' (3 question marks) in that case which is still not correct. But the rest of such web-pages displays correctly. I'm not sure whether commenting out the lines in BIG5.TXT which map characters to U+FFFD is the right solution. Maybe these characters should be mapped to the user zone instead as suggested in the comment at the top of BIG5.TXT? But at least this patch should help to illustrate where the problem comes from. For more details, please have a look at http://bugzilla.novell.com/show_bug.cgi?id=293109 -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。 I � Unicode _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta