Please subside. If this is a real issue we can arrange a fair side-by-side test.
Edward Cherlin There are lies, damned lies, and benchmarks. >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Jimmy Kaplowitz >Sent: Sun, October 28, 2001 9:19 AM >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Cc: Oliver Doepner; [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: unicode in emacs 21 > > >On Sun, Oct 28, 2001 at 05:04:22PM +0000, Dave Love wrote: >> >>>>> "OD" == Oliver Doepner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> OD> There is vim 6.x now with full utf-8 support on the xterm. >> >> [Does `full utf-8 support' mean level 3?] > >Well, it handles double-width characters as well as up to two combining >characters. It's the only editor I've used (including Yudit) that could >display the sequence U+0283 U+034D correctly. > >> Emacs can do utf-8 i/o under ttys that support it, though you don't >> _need_ such support -- either input or output -- to edit utf-8 text. >> >> OD> It is much faster than emacs on x11 of course. >> >> I'm surprised that's much of an issue. I assume Emacs under X is much >> more capable. > >Well, Emacs does have more features (including some that are less >essential, such as doctor mode :), but vim has quite enough for most >purposes. > >> OD> I was happy to see Emacs 21 announced. but the unicode support >> OD> does not seem to have moved forward very much >> >> It's moved from zero to the state where it's perfectly fine for >> editing at least the Western technical text that interests me. E.g., >> Kuhn's UTF-8-demo.utf works modulo the level 2 text, for which one can >> add support straightforwardly at the Lisp level. It also allowed >> producing coding systems for all the 8-bit charsets for GNUish >> locales, which perhaps matters more in the wide world than utf-8 per >> se. With some customization, I can also at least _display_ >> utf-8-encoded CJK text. I can send and receive utf-8-encoded mail and >> browse utf-8-encoded web sites (with the development W3 package). > >Vim can display the UTF-8-demo file perfectly, with no exceptions. Also, >although I haven't tested this, I am told it can write as well as >display utf-8 CJK text. > >- Jimmy Kaplowitz >[EMAIL PROTECTED] / [EMAIL PROTECTED] > - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
