Re: IPA coding and UTF8
Ar an deichiú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Uwe Brauer:
Aidan> 21.4’s Unicode support is entirely through Mule-UCS,
the
Aidan> buggy CCL implementation that increases the process’s
Aidan> resident size by 13 MB or so. Backporting your Unicode
Aidan> implementation for 21.5, which I agree would be nicer to our
Aidan> users, would be a big change to the stable branch, and I’m
Aidan> not sure Vin would be okay with it.
Does that mean that 21.5.x does the IPA in a decent way?
Not yet--either Ben needs to commit his Unicode-internal implementation,
which has incidental better Unicode support with old-style internal coding
too, or I need to commit my change adding the latter.
For proper support of the IPA, you need combining characters, and that’s
still a long way away :-( . But living without combining characters in your
text editor is okay for lots of purposes--e.g. editing HTML where the
rendering of the finished document is done by a browser that does support
combining characters.
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