Re: Choice of fonts displaying etc/HELLO

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:

> I think the only meaningful categories are those defined by Unicode.
> That is, a block of Cyrillic characters should have the cyrillic
> category, the block of Japanese characters should have japanese
> category, etc.

Unfortunately, there's no such block as "Japanese" in
Unicode.

> The fact that the character is covered by some
> ISO-2022 charset is not interesting in Emacs 23, unless I'm missing
> something.

> What kind of backward compatibility problems could we cause?  Who or
> what code depends on these categories?

(re-search-forward "\\cj") can effectively search for
characters belonging to Japanese charset.  It is used, for
instance, in japanese-hankaku-region (in japan-util.el), and
"\\cc" is used in encode-hz-region (in china-util.el).

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Kenichi Handa
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