Re: another UTF8 Problem in 21.4.17

Uwe> The sad question is then, does GNU Emacs handles that better Uwe> ??? Zhang's problem is irrelevant to you, unless you specifically want support for recently (ie, post-1980) standardized Chinese or Indian characters. UTF-8 is supported about as well as GNU Emacs does AFAIK, but we only support a subset of all Unicode characters, and don't support combining characters yet, only the pre-combined equivalents. I believe they support a few characters of interest to Europeans that we don't "out of the box." I expect that XEmacs 21.5 will make very rapid progress in the next few months, but this depends very much on Ben Wing, and of course will be accompanied by substantial instability for a while. Aidan Kehoe also threatened to work on the "unknown characters problem", so that may get done quickly even if Ben doesn't do it. (I'd like to work on it but I don't think I have time to be the lead.) -- School of Systems and Information Engineering http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.