Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale

2001-12-18 Thread Eli Zaretskii
On Tue, 18 Dec 2001, Markus Kuhn wrote: The proper way of determining the encoding used by the current locale is not to look at a single locale variable, but to query the Single Unix Specification (and now also POSIX) function nl_langinfo(CODESET), as for example in utf8_mode =

Re: A more verbose version of Emacs-Unicode-990824

2001-11-05 Thread Eli Zaretskii
On Sun, 4 Nov 2001, Florian Weimer wrote: Unicode Support for GNU Emacs * This memo documents the current plans for bringing Unicode to GNU Emacs. It describes the requirements and constraints for the new Emacs character set, and the transformation format

Re: UTF-8 support for the ancient shell toys

2001-11-03 Thread Eli Zaretskii
Date: Sat, 3 Nov 2001 18:16:32 + (GMT) From: Markus Kuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Basically, even after reading that page (which told me something I didn't know in some cases), Unicode support in basic development tools is still very much rudimentary. In practice, Perl has long ago

Re: unicode in emacs 21

2001-10-30 Thread Eli Zaretskii
From: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2001 08:09:20 +0100 Richard Stallman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Supporting Unicode superficially while retaining the current internal representation raises a number of problems, one of them being that the internal representation

Re: unicode in emacs 21

2001-10-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
[I suggest to have this discussion on emacs-unicode mailing list, so I added it to the list of addressees.] From: Florian Weimer [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Sun, 28 Oct 2001 00:58:29 +0200 Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Emacs cannot use a pure UTF-8 encoding, since some cultures

Re: Unicode in Emacs again

2001-10-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
On Sat, 27 Oct 2001, David Starner wrote: On Fri, Oct 26, 2001 at 01:35:26PM +0200, Oliver Doepner wrote: Emacs-Unicode-990824 -- Internal Character code: 00 Unicode U+ - U+

Re: unicode in emacs 21

2001-10-28 Thread Eli Zaretskii
On 28 Oct 2001, Janusz S. =?iso-8859-2?q?Bie=F1?= wrote: On Eli Zaretskii [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [...] Lately, the emacs-unicode mailing list was revived, in the hope that it will boost the activity. Sadly, the traffic on that list is nil. Was the list properly announced? I've

Re: unicode in emacs 21

2001-10-25 Thread Eli Zaretskii
On Thu, 25 Oct 2001, Oliver Doepner wrote: my question: what happened in this area in Emacs 21 ?? What happened is that Emacs now supports Unicode characters that basically span the BMP with the exception of CJK ideographic characters. It also has some initial support for UTF-8. Is the