yeah-- well hopefuly emacs will get with the game on these crazy 2-byte characters!! hehe..
the main reason i stick with the macos on my main computer is the excellent japanese support. but again, unicode is as neat a concept as it is a useful tool...but when will my favorite terminal emulator (eterm) support it??? -dylan on 03.6.9 4:07 PM, Micah J. Cowan at [EMAIL PROTECTED] was reported to have writen: > On Mon, Jun 09, 2003 at 03:36:55PM -0700, dylan wrote: >> I am not sure about emacs- from my experience japanese (encoded with EUC, >> JIS,or Shift-JIS) can easily converted to unicode based on mapping tables >> available from the Unicode website. > > Yup. And on the disk that comes with the book version. However, it's > still annoying that Emacs won't support it directly: and of course, > I'd have to convert it *back* into EUC, JIS, or whatever before I > could pull it back into Emacs again... > >> the only limitations that will exist >> here are shortcomings in the software, or the use of about 1000 kanji from >> the JEF character set that are not part of the unicode character set. > > These were hardly in general use: they exist in historical documents > primarily. However, this is still important, and Unicode has already > made "extensive additions of CJK characters to cover dictionaries and > historic usage." in version 4.0. > >> for all practical purposes, at least with the software that i am using on >> the MacOS, it is quite easy to go between the main 3 encodings >> (EUC,JIS,Shift-JIS) and unicode. > > Yup. As I said, I was just speaking of Emacs. :( > > -Micah > > _______________________________________________ > vox-tech mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech > -- "The world is a dangerous place to live; not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it." -Albert Einstein _______________________________________________ vox-tech mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.lugod.org/mailman/listinfo/vox-tech
