Bruno Haible <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The programs we are waiting for are:
>
> - emacs. In an UTF-8 locale, it does not set the
> keyboard-coding-system to UTF-8, thus when I type umlaut keys
> strange things happen. And it does not set the default file
> encoding to UTF-8,
I hope so! Setting the default encoding to UTF-8 for random files is
harmful in the Emacs context, especially with the current fragile
UTF-8 implementation.
> thus I see mojibake every time I open a
> file which looks perfectly nice through "cat" or "vi" in xterm.
> But we heard the Emacs developers are working on this lately.
Yes, the specific problems are solved. It isn't a big deal actually,
but apparently no one actually tried to run Emacs on a multibyte
terminal, but a few months ago, some guy from Germany (not me, BTW)
triggered a general bug in the Emacs keyboard coding system in this
context which has reportedly been fixed in the development sources.
Anyway, you can run a suitably recent version of Emacs (probably
not the Emacs 21 branch, however) inside an UTF-8 xterm and it
works mainly as expected. Actually, I've got access to Emacs 20
with MULE-UCS only, and the results are promising indeed. I didn't
check that the notions of full width characters match and other
sophisticated stuff, but the HELLO file displays quite nicely.
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Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels
Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
