[mule] xemacs doesn't recognize some symbols

Andriy Gapon writes: Basic they may be, but historically they are relatively recent additions. (Not to mention that due to Soviet political pressure on the ISO, Ukrainian and Macedonian characters were deliberately excluded from even Unicode for many years.) What happened is that as the ISO defined more and more symbols and character sets the symbol names were added to X11. With the diffusion of Unicode this process got disrailed in favor of adding characters to Unicode, but XEmacs 21.4 still depends on those "legacy" character sets. It's quite possible that if you simply upgrade to XEmacs 21.5 things will "just work", as XEmacs 21.5 has substantially better support for Unicode. This support will not be backported to XEmacs 21.4. They come from XEmacs. They mean that the numerical equivalents (used to index fonts) of the character names were not compiled into XEmacs, so XEmacs cannot convert them into internal character codes. No. See below. That's right. The documents contain the symbols coded as numerical equivalents already. These get passed more or less directly to the rendering mechanism so there is no trouble. For internal editing purposes (deleting and moving), characters are just numbers, so there's no problem there, either. It's possible that Aidan Kehoe will be able to help you limp along with 21.4, but in the medium term you need to upgrade to 21.5 if you want to use Unicode (and I would guess you have little choice). _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta