utf-8 questions [was: Re: fontlock-speed]
On Wed, Feb 06, 2002 at 10:08:34PM +0900, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Muchas gracias.
from me, from me...
Stef> btw, i seem to recall you're working on mule,
right?
Yes.
my memory amazes me ;)
Install Mule-UCS from packages, put
(require 'un-define)
(set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8))
(set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 utf-8)
and you should be fine _with standard national fonts_ for all
character sets you use. It's not yet ＠nicode inside, it's still Mule
codes that basically encode the XLFD registry (ie, the national
standard) in each character.
done that, thanx, i could not figure it out from the docs in 21.4.
still i cannot display a utf-8 file i have which uses most of the
different characters available. some end up alrioght, and some others
are plain wrong. also some fonts are missing so i assume it will not be
able to display it even with that.
Stef> and i've had a hard time telling xemacs how to use a
unicode
Stef> font.
You can't do it directly, at least not without extreme hackery. Mule
doesn't have a real Unicode charset internally, so there's nothing to
bind a Unicode registry to. It would not be straightforward to
create, either, because Unicode is not ISO 2022-compatible. So you'd
have to translate it to multiple 96x96 pages. You can run -nw with
(set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8) if you really want the Unicode
font for some reason.
i did that in a gnome terminal that just cat that file correctly, and
although it displays half of the characters correctly, the second half
is wrong.
It should be possible to do this right pretty soon once Ben merges
his
new stuff. So I'm going to have to say "stick with Mule-UCS for the
moment."
wow, that would be good, i'm sick of the second half of the office using
vi claiming how superior it is for utf-8 ;)
Stef> is there a howto to get started or an faq entry ?
No, there should be. Er ... FAQ is done. In CVS 21.5. What
documentation there is is in the Mule-UCS Texinfo manual.
alright, i admit i only looked at the faq for 21.4 and the C-h a ucs
list ;)
i will look further then.
thanx a lot for the info!
--
# Stef Epardaud, # There is no limit to the power of computing ...
# Java Defeater # ... except mankind maybe ?
# Earth # Lunatech Research,
# Solar System # soon we'll quit researching and start finding...