> If I read this list right, UTF-8 on Emacs is not quite there yet.
It is, if you restrict yourself to the characters available in the many
character sets of Emacs (and latin-4 is available in Emacs). Use the
mule-ucs package -- it simply maps Emacs' character sets to utf-8 while
writing the file to the disk.
> I will not be able to do my work without emacs. When is the next,
> UTF-8-friendly version scheduled?
Full UTF-8 support will still take a long time.
> 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?
Within mule-ucs, you can use the character set specific input methods
(e.g. `latin-4-prefix').
> What prompted me to write this was the recent thread discussing
> whethter it is possible to print UTF-8 encoded characters or not. This
> seems to me a pretty basic demand. I have been working for a unix
> based lg tech company, and despite its being unix-based and
> multilingual, our technical personel has decided not to migrate to
> UTF-8, due to open questions of the type just presented. Perhaps that
> was not an unreasonable decision after all?
An interface between Emacs and LaTeX is available. Try the cjk-enc.el
file which comes with the CJK package
ftp://ftp.ffii.org/pub/cjk/devel/cjk-current.tar.gz
It converts the most common character sets of Emacs into something LaTeX
can understand.
Werner
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