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Re: new Emacs HELLO file??
From: |
Juri Linkov |
Subject: |
Re: new Emacs HELLO file?? |
Date: |
Wed, 02 Sep 2009 00:27:57 +0300 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) |
>>>>>> BTW, I think we should convert HELLO to UTF-8. Do you see any symbol
>>>>>> in HELLO not supported by UTF-8?
>>>>>
>>>>> Isn't it currently UTF-8?
>>>>
>>>> It's iso-2022-7bit, and converting it to utf-8 would lose the cjk
>>>> variants.
>> >
>> > Since Emacs-23 has utf-8 as its internal encoding, I have my
>> > problems to see how they are not lost anyway.
>
>> See the charset properties.
>
> As iso-2022-7bit has designation sequences for each
> character set, Emacs can use that information to add proper
> `charset' property, and that property infulence the font
> selection.
The purpose of the HELLO file is to demonstrate Emacs multilingual
capabilities. It currently does this using iso-2022-7bit. Does this
mean that UTF-8 is not the best coding system for multilingual texts
in Emacs, because UTF-8 has some limitations (doesn't provide the
proper font selection, loses cjk variants), so iso-2022-7bit is the
preferable coding system for multilingual texts in Emacs? Is it possible
to improve the UTF-8 support in Emacs since most files use it nowadays?
--
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/