Re: [Tristan Miller <psy@cs.toronto.edu>] XEmacs FAQ

APA> Any takers? He's obviously not using Mule; that's why the information seems vague to him---he has never experienced the problems addressed in the FAQ. Nor has he RTFM'd. If he had, he'd know what a coding system is and either know how to use it or have a specific question about it. I've thought about this issue, and it's just plain hard to document. Mule is designed to be transparent to the user (and mostly to the Lisp programmer too); when it breaks down, there generally is not a FAQ-style "use this magic incantation" answer. There's very little documentation, period; what I know of that isn't in the manuals is in Japanese.... I'll update the FAQ, Sec. 1.3, one of these days (it's wa-a-ay old), but I don't think he'll be any happier. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From: Tristan Miller <psy(a)cs.toronto.edu&gt; Subject: XEmacs FAQ To: faq(a)xemacs.org Date: Thu, 17 Oct 2002 12:05:26 -0400 Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0210171159110.28218-100000(a)qew.cs&gt; Organization: http://www.nothingisreal.com/ Greetings. I would like to suggest an addition to the XEmacs FAQ. Section 1.3 and Q3.5.7 both address the issue of using XEmacs to edit non-English text; however, the information seems extremely vague to me. The FAQ basically says that XEmacs supports internationalization through MULE, but doesn't say how to use it, or where to get more information on it. My specific problem (which I imagine is shared by many others) is that I want to be able to edit text which uses a character set different from the default. Since most X Windows systems have fonts available in various character sets (ISO-8859-1, ISO-8859-2, etc.) I was hoping the FAQ would tell me how to change the character set of the font used to display a particular buffer. Unfortunately, it does not, nor can I find any link to this information. Perhaps the I18n section of the FAQ could be revised, with at least some pointers to MULE guides, tutorials, references, etc. Thanks for considering, -- \\\ Tristan Miller [en, (fr, de, ia)] \\\ Department of Computer Science, University of Toronto \\\ http://www.cs.toronto.edu/~psy/ ---------- -- Adrian Aichner mailto:adrian＠xemacs.org http://www.xemacs.org/ -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py