Ar an séiú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: If we’re still using the ISO 2022 infrastructure for X11 redisplay, it would seem reasonable to keep it there. For other platforms, it seems the defined subsets that Unicode.org give (with perhaps some special treatment of the Windows Glyph List, in acknowledgement that fonts will disproportionately tend to support that) would be the best approach, and specifier tags for them might be workable. Language tagging is not something we have, and not something we can easily write, in either internal encoding model. Differentiating between Spanish and Swedish _needs_ language tagging, since most text in both languages is ASCII. Cf. the text of two newspaper articles: http://www.aftonbladet.se/vss/nyheter/story/0,2789,948144,00.html: => ((chinese-gb2312 . 4) (latin-iso8859-1 . 114) (ascii . 2235)) http://www.elmundo.es/elmundo/2006/12/06/internacional/1165391686.html => ((latin-iso8859-1 . 57) (ascii . 3965)) Übrigens, yay, I appear to finally be a Lisp coder: (defun charset-character-count-in-string (string) "Return an alist mapping from the charsets in STRING to how often characters from each appear. " (let (alist) (dolist (char (append string nil) alist) (unless (assq (char-charset char) alist) (setq alist (cons (cons (char-charset char) 0) alist))) (incf (cdr (assq (char-charset char) alist)))))) -- Santa Maradona, priez pour moi! _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta