On 25 Oct 2001, Lars Engebretsen wrote: > IIRC, there is a plan for changing Emacs to be more unicode-oriented, > but so far no-one has voulunteered to do the work. > You get what you pay for. If free software doesn't work the way you > want, you cannot really demand that other people devote their spare > time to fix the problem for you.
So far, I have received much more than I paid for: I have paid nothing und just contributed slightly (ideas, bug report) to html-helper-mode.el for GNU Emacs, but did no development in E-Lisp. (I don't know much elisp yet.) I just wanted to express my disappointment about the direction Emacs 21 seems to develop. There is no point in moving "towards a word processor" if the i18n char-handling is still so screwed. (in my opinion) It should be possible to criticize without being an active emacs hacker. Of course noone is obliged to listen to my pathetic requests (or even do the work to satisfy me and others who are waiting for proper unicode support in emacs). It was probably me being impulsive and emotional. :-| So what? What do other people on this list think about the issue? Is anybody willing to "step in" and integrate some sort of "iconv mechanism" into Emacs? Or am I totally on the wrong track and missed something important? My information is: Emacs 20 + Otfried Cheongs extensions for UTF-8 can be installed and configured, then utf8 somehow works for the buffer and operations on that buffer, UCS-fonts can be used in X11 only. In the xterm or console there is no unicode support at all (?). I have heard from many sources that this is still the case with Emacs 21. Or is this information wrong ?! Sorry for just being an emacs "USER". :-/ cheers oliver - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
