Re: Mule-on-Windows, full Unicode support XEmacs

Reply-To set to xemacs-beta and ben. The other lists are basically dead. Tsunhin> Hi all XEmacs users on NT/XP, I'm trying to find a way to Tsunhin> work on UNICODE text (inputing CJK characters) XEmacs 21.5 is moving toward full Unicode support. The next step is to use Unicode as the internal encoding. (Stalled as the lead developer is on vacation, maybe we'll see results in February.) We are currently restricted with respect to modern Chinese character sets such as GBK and GB18030; these cannot be supported with the legacy (Mule) internal encoding. Tsunhin> by XEmacs in an XP box Is there anyway to install the Tsunhin> MULE-UCS packages? and how is the status of MULE-UCS in Tsunhin> recent year? Mule-UCS has been orphaned, abandoned, unsupported, and unmaintained for about 5 years. Nor does XEmacs 21.4 support Mule well at all; third party patches are required. On the Windows platform you really should use XEmacs 21.5, which does pretty much everything that Mule-UCS does, although you may need to load some non-default character sets. Up to the current release (21.5.24) it is very stable, though there are many rough edges since it is the development line. There is likely to be substantial instability in the near future, however, as we replace the legacy internal encoding with Unicode. The emacs-unicode2 branch of GNU Emacs is well-recommended for stability and character set support if those are overriding concerns. But that branch is of course completely unsupported, currently not being developed AFAIK (they're devoting maximum effort to the current release) and is basically waiting on the release to be merged to mainline, at which point you can probably expect some months of instability. (And as far as I know all emacs-unicode developers are Unix-based; I've seen no reports about it on Windows. It's *probably* OK but I suggest asking before you invest effort.) -- Graduate School of Systems and Information Engineering University of Tsukuba http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp/ Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Economics of Information Communication and Computation Systems Experimental Economics, Microeconomic Theory, Game Theory