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Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8
From: |
Simon Josefsson |
Subject: |
Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8 |
Date: |
Sat, 26 Apr 2003 16:15:27 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.090019 (Oort Gnus v0.19) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:
> Could we add that information to the PROBLEMS file?
>
> --- PROBLEMS.~1.147.~ Tue Feb 4 16:44:10 2003
> +++ PROBLEMS Sat Apr 26 02:26:21 2003
> @@ -27,6 +27,11 @@
> mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
> mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1
>
> +* Some Unicode characters are not supported.
> +
> +Emacs currently only supports the parts of the BMP whose codepoints
> +are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff.
> +
>
> Mentioning this in PROBLEMS seems like a good idea to me, but a useful
> entry needs to be stated in terms of what behavior the user sees.
> This text doesn't explain the practical consequences; a user would say
> "so what does that mean for me?"
Is this better? This was the behaviour I got when trying to save the
data; I had specified that the coding system for saving should be
utf-8 but when I tried to save the buffer Emacs was unable to encode
the characters and suggested shift_jis (etc) instead.
--- PROBLEMS.~1.147.~ Tue Feb 4 16:44:10 2003
+++ PROBLEMS Sat Apr 26 16:13:07 2003
@@ -27,6 +27,13 @@
mule-unicode-e000-ffff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1,\
mule-unicode-0100-24ff:-gnu-unifont-*-iso10646-1
+* Encoding some characters as Unicode is rejected by Emacs.
+
+Emacs currently only supports the parts of the BMP whose codepoints
+are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff. If you try to save a file
+containing characters with code points outside this range, Emacs will
+suggest other compatible coding systems.
+
* Problems with file dialogs in Emacs built with Open Motif.
When Emacs 21 is built with Open Motif 2.1, it can happen that the
- More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Simon Josefsson, 2003/04/25
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/04/25
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Simon Josefsson, 2003/04/25
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Richard Stallman, 2003/04/26
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8,
Simon Josefsson <=
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/26
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Simon Josefsson, 2003/04/26
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/26
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Simon Josefsson, 2003/04/26
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/27
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Kenichi Handa, 2003/04/28
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Alex Schroeder, 2003/04/28
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Simon Josefsson, 2003/04/28
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Kai Großjohann, 2003/04/29
- Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8, Robert J. Chassell, 2003/04/29