Hello Using xemacs as an external editor I just edited a wikipedia article which contained IPA symbols. I thought that setting the coding to UTF8 would be enough, but no to my horror some symbols got destroyed. Can anybody tell me what the correct setting is? Thanks Uwe Brauer Xemacs 21-4.17

Ar an deichiú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Ben Wing: > [...] BTW part of unicode-internal is a redoing of the internal mule > coding so that any of the 96 possible charsets can be either dim-1 or > dim-2. (and a slightly more advanced version doubles the number of > possible charsets to 96x2 = 192.) i also added unicode charsets that > cover all characters unrepresentable in some other way. we might consider > backporting this to 21.4, so that we can at least open, if not display, > all possible unicode chars. 21.4’s Unicode support is entirely through Mule-UCS, the buggy CCL implementation that increases the process’s resident size by 13 MB or so. Backporting your Unicode implementation for 21.5, which I agree would be nicer to our users, would be a big change to the stable branch, and I’m not sure Vin would be okay with it.

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <ben(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: Ben> no, didn't mean backporting the whole shebang; just adding Ben> coding systems that can be used to handle unknown unicode Ben> characters rather than having them get corrupted. How do you do that and still keep Mule-UCS enabled for the characters it does handle? I don't think any serious attempts should be made to improve Unicode support in 21.4.

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?