Re: utf8 and unicode characters

[Miles Bader]

On Sun, Apr 18, 2004 at 02:04:24PM -0400, Robert V. Baron wrote:
> I want to use emacs to read/write utf8 files.  The files were generated by
> translating chinese big5 files into utf8.  When I drop the files into
> emacs, all I see is "y" with accent characters for each unicode character,
> I can mouse over and emacs will show the character number.

To make the current emacs handle chinese utf-8 correctly you have to have
`utf-translate-cjk-mode' enabled (either do `M-x utf-translate-cjk-mode',
or turn it on with customize-variable).

[What do you mean "drop the files into emacs" anyway?]

-Miles
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