Uwe> Around January, I think Stephen T. said, that full UFT8 Uwe> support would enter the 21.5.x series in a couple of month. Depends on what you mean by "full UTF-8" support. Aidan just committed a patch that allows XEmacs to not corrupt unknown Unicode characters. I'm not sure how keyboard input and display are supported for such characters, though. -- 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.

Ar an dara lá de mí Meitheamh, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: Not yet committed. I had a minor hardware issue--more exactly, I spilled a glass of wine on my laptop, oops--and a new job to finalise this week. It should be in place by Sunday, though. On my machine, I set the primary font I want to see using X resources, and use this in my ~/.xemacs/init.el to get them displaying okay; ;; With the current font architecture, this gets picked up as the face for ;; the esoteric character sets, and the X11 resources are checked for the ;; others. (set-face-font 'default "-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--13-120-75-75-c-70-iso10646-1") Which is a bit hackish. But then the current Mule handling of X11 server-side fonts doesn’t offer an alternative to hacking around. I also have this, which is a huge improvement on the previous situation for those out there who don’t have the specialised Mule fonts installed (that is, for almost everyone using X11): (dolist (charset '(chinese-cns11643-1 chinese-cns11643-2 chinese-big5-1 chinese-big5-2 arabic-digit arabic-1-column arabic-2-column chinese-sisheng ascii-right-to-left indian-is13194 lao ipa vietnamese-viscii-upper vietnamese-viscii-lower japanese-jisx0212 chinese-cns11643-3 chinese-cns11643-4 chinese-cns11643-5 chinese-cns11643-6 chinese-cns11643-7 chinese-isoir165 ethiopic indian-2-column indian-1-column japanese-jisx0213-1 japanese-jisx0213-2 thai-xtis tibetan tibetan-1-column)) (when (equal (charset-dimension charset) 2) (set-charset-ccl-program charset 'ccl-encode-to-ucs-2) (set-charset-registry charset "iso10646-1"))))) I’m thinking about keeping around a list of the XLFDs for Markus Kuhn’s reasonably complete iso10646-1 fonts, and in the font lookup code, for _all_ charsets, checking for them and changing the corresponding registry and ccl-program if they exist, before falling back to drawing tildes. Since most of the extant XFree86 and X.org installs have these fonts, that would be a noticeable improvement for lots of people. -- Aidan Kehoe, http://www.parhasard.net/