Trond Trosterud writes:
> If I read this list right, UTF-8 on Emacs is not quite there yet. There is
> something called MULE, but people are waiting for the next Emacs version to
> handle UTF-8 smoothly. I will not be able to do my work without emacs. When
> is the next, UTF-8-friendly version scheduled?
Emacs 20.6 with the oc-unicode package
(http://www.cs.ust.hk/faculty/otfried/Mule/, includes Mule-UCS) _does_
handle UTF-8 smoothly. Installation is not hard, with Otfried Cheong's
instructions.
Emacs 21 will even have UTF-8 support built-in, but limited to Unicode
BMP minus CJK characters. This includes the ISO-8859-4 characters you
are worried about, and many many more.
> I have scanned through all info I have found, but still do not quite see
> how basic unix commands such as wc, sort, etc. handle UTF-8.
There are some patches in the gnu-i18n tools CVS
([EMAIL PROTECTED]:/cvsroot/gnu-i18n),
and another set of patches at
http://oss.software.ibm.com/developer/opensource/linux/patches/i18n.php
> I also do not see info on how to make keyboard drivers for UTF-8. This
> might be trivial, and therefore not mentioned, but I will need an input
> device. Where do I find info on how to build a keyboard layout for the
> character set just quoted?
For "small" character sets like ISO-8859-4, you can simply continue to
use your X keymap. It works well in UTF-8 locales.
Bruno
-
Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/lists/
