Aidan Kehoe <kehoea(a)parhasard.net&gt; さんは書きました: Thank you very much! How does Emacs 21.3 do it without UCS as the internal encoding? -- Mike FABIAN <mfabian(a)suse.de&gt; http://www.suse.de/~mfabian 睡眠不足はいい仕事の敵だ。

We should just do that.

Ar an dara lá de mí Márta, scríobh Mike FABIAN: Nope. You could integrate the following code into your site-start.el, until we do; the preloaded-unicode-key-translations list might be better if it were initialised from the XKB mappings you ship. (defun insert-unicode-keysym () "Assuming the last typed key has an associated keysym of the form UXXXX, where XXXX is the hexadecimal code point of a Unicode character, insert that Unicode character at point. " (interactive) (let* ((unicode-codepoint (string-to-int (substring (format "%s" (event-key last-command-event)) 1) 16)) (mule-char (unicode-to-char unicode-codepoint))) (if mule-char (insert mule-char) (error 'text-conversion-error (format "Could not convert U+%X to a Mule character, sorry" unicode-codepoint))))) (defvar preloaded-unicode-key-translations '(U00A6 U017F U027C U1E9B U201A U201E U204A) "List of X11 keysyms of the form UXXXX, likely to be typed by the user. This is a stopgap until we have integrated translation of those keysyms into XEmacs.") (dolist (keysym preloaded-unicode-key-translations) (define-key global-map keysym 'insert-unicode-keysym)) -- “I, for instance, am gung-ho about open source because my family is being held hostage in Rob Malda’s basement. But who fact-checks me, or Enderle, when we say something in public? No-one!” -- Danny O’Brien

Mike> What needs to be done to add support for such characters? For editing buffers and strings, if it has a corresponding registered charset which is known to Mule, just load a Unicode Consortium format mapping file. If it's Unicode-only, you would create a new "private" Mule charset, give them arbitrary code points, and use the mapping functions in unicode.c that are exported to Lisp to explicitly map them to Unicode. Fonts must correspond to a registered charset for core X; since we don't have a Unicode charset there's no easy way to display Unicode fonts. If you have Xft support built in, then you'll get it automatically in any font that supports the character. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences 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.

Aidan> With current Xft support, there’s still a need for a Mule Aidan> character set that supports a given character, for that Aidan> character to be even recognised by XEmacs. Of course. That was already taken care of in the preceding paragraph, though. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences 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.