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Re: Unicode support


From: Werner LEMBERG
Subject: Re: Unicode support
Date: Wed, 18 Jul 2001 20:00:53 +0200 (CEST)

> I think you are wrong: Emacs 21 does not have any capabilities Emacs
> 20 didn't have, and the massive internal changes are mostly related
> to the display engine, much less to Mule.

But many changes to provide Unicode support will involve the display
engine!

> So there's no reason to wait for Emacs 21 or hope that it will solve
> any substantial problems on the way to switching the internal
> representation to a Unicode-based one.

I know that too well since I've written the approved draft how the new
buffer and character encoding layout of a real Unicode-aware Emacs
will look like.


    Werner



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