Re: Chinese characters support

[Robin Hu]

>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:

    Charles> Gaoyan Xie wrote
    >> I am trying to explore GNU emacs's multilingual support, and what
    >> I want is the display and input of Chinese characters. Have any
    >> of you done this before? I tried according to GNU emacs' online
    >> manual, but still couldn't make it work. BTW, I am using Redhat
    >> Linux 7.2 and GNU emacs 20.7.

    Charles> I would recommend first that you consider installing a
    Charles> newer 21.x version of Emacs if you are concerned about
    Charles> international script support. A newer version of RedHat
    Charles> would not hurt either. I am using RH9 with Emacs 21.2 and
    Charles> Chinese and Japanese display without me having to do
    Charles> anything, as long as the documents are encoded in JIS for
    Charles> Japanese and Big5 for Chinese.

    Charles> When it comes to working with UTF-8, I have never heard of
    Charles> anyone succeeding in displaying East Asian scripts without
    Charles> installing the TEI-Emacs add-on.

    I am using Mule-Ucs 0.84 (patches from debian applied) with Emacs
    21.3.50, it seems to work fine. So what is "TEI-Emacs add-on", can
    you point me out URLs related?
    Charles> Chuck


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