RE: Please check out my new, Mule-on-Windows, full Unicode suppor t XEmacs!

>> -----Original Message----- >> From: Ben Wing [mailto:ben＠666.com] >> Sent: Tuesday, August 21, 2001 1:21 AM >> To: XEmacs MULE; XEmacs NT List; XEmacs beta list >> Subject: Please check out my new, Mule-on-Windows, full >> Unicode support >> XEmacs! >> >> >> I'm looking for testers. There is a complete and fast >> implementation >> in C of Unicode conversion, translations for almost all of the >> standardly-defined charsets that load up automatically and >> instantaneously at runtime, coding systems supporting the common >> external representations of Unicode [utf-16, ucs-4, utf-8, >> little-endian versions of utf-16 and ucs-4; utf-7 is sitting there >> with abort[]s where the coding routines should go, just waiting for >> somebody to implement], and a nice set of primitives for translating >> characters<->codepoints and setting the priority lists used >> to control >> codepoint->char lookup. >> >> It's so far hooked into one place: the Windows IME. Currently I can >> select the Japanese IME from the thing on my tray pad in the lower >> right corner of the screen, and type Japanese into XEmacs, >> and you get >> Japanese in XEmacs -- regardless of whether you set either your >> current or global system locale to Japanese,and regardless >> of whether >> you set your XEmacs lang env as Japanese. This should work for many >> other languages, too -- Cyrillic, Chinese either Traditional or >> Simplified, and many others, but YMMV. There may be some lurking >> bugs (hardly surprising for something so raw). >> >> To get at this, checkout using `ben-mule-21-5', NOT the simpler >> *`mule-21-5'. For example >> >> cvs -d :pserver:xemacs＠cvs.xemacs.org:/usr/CVSroot checkout >> -r ben-mule-21-5 \ >> xemacs >> >> or you get the idea. the `-r ben-mule-21-5' is important. >> >> I keep track of my progress in a file called README.ben-mule-21-5 in >> the root directory of the source tree. >> >> WARNING: Pdump might not work. Will be fixed rsn. >> >> ben >>