Alex Schroeder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > This is why Emacs treats Unicode as just another coding system -- this > works well, since the work for all the other coding systems has > already been done. And using only Unicode is lossy.
On the other hand, the iso-8859 unification that's built-in to unicode is a Good Thing. Extra code points could be introduced into unicode to avoid Han unification. > So what Emacs lacks, at the moment, is only all the Unicode fancy > stuff -- compositions, alternate representations, etc. Hm, hm. >> I think the new Unicode-based internal encoding in Emacs will offer >> some way around `Han unification', perhaps by using private extension >> areas in Unicode. > > Perhaps. But perhaps this will just mean that Emacs can "decode" all > the fancy Unicode stuff, and the internal emacs-mule coding system is > expanded to handle anything it cannot yet represent... We would have > to ask Handa or other people on emacs-devel to know for sure. I'm quite sure that emacs-unicode is a branch where the *internal* encoding is changed to something based on unicode. Note that editing UTF-8 files is orthogonal to the internal encoding used. (It could be that emacs-unicode cannot yet edit UTF-8 files.) -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis) ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf _______________________________________________ [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/bbdb-info BBDB Home Page: http://bbdb.sourceforge.net/
