From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail From: Anton Zinoviev Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:29:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20020227132949.C18112@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> NNTP-Posting-Host: quimby2.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1014807314 27553 195.204.10.66 (27 Feb 2002 10:55:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no NNTP-Posting-Date: 27 Feb 2002 10:55:14 GMT Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by quimby2.netfonds.no with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16g1ju-0007AJ-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 11:55:14 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g1g2-0001uD-00; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:51:14 -0500 Original-Received: from infoman.org ([62.44.101.36] helo=debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16g1dY-0001mq-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 05:48:41 -0500 Original-Received: from mail.fmi.uni-sofia.bg (mail.fmi.uni-sofia.bg [62.44.101.4]) by debian.fmi.uni-sofia.bg (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2E46011D314 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:48:39 +0200 (EET) Original-Received: from logic.fmi.uni-sofia.bg ([62.44.100.59]) by mail.fmi.uni-sofia.bg (Netscape Messaging Server 3.62) with ESMTP id 285 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 12:40:38 +0200 Original-Received: from zinoviev by logic.fmi.uni-sofia.bg with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16g2HR-0004rd-00 for ; Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:29:53 +0200 Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i Errors-To: emacs-devel-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.5 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: quimby.gnus.org gmane.emacs.devel:1591 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:1591 Hi! Even when users choose some non-Latin1 language environment Emacs doesn't suppose that it's new default encoding is actually the encoding of the X-clipboard, the console font, etc. This can be easily changed in this way: (set-language-info-alist "Ukrainian" `((documentation . "\ Support for Ukrainian with KOI8-U coding system. If you prefer UTF-8, please put in ~/.emacs the following line: (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)") (charset ascii cyrillic-iso8859-5 mule-unicode-0100-24ff) (sample-text . "here some Ukrainian tekst") (setup-function . setup-koi8u-coding-system) (exit-function . reset-coding-system) (coding-system . (koi8-u utf-8)) (coding-priority . (koi8-u utf-8)) (nonascii-translation . ,(get 'cyrillic-koi8u-nonascii-translation-table 'translation-table)) (input-method . "cyrillic-ukrainian") (unibyte-display . cyrillic-koi8u) (features cyril-util)) '("Cyrillic")) Note the (setup-function . setup-koi8u-coding-system) and (exit-function . reset-coding-system). They can be defined by (features cyril-util) in this way: (defun setup-koi8u-coding-system () (let () (set-keyboard-coding-system 'koi8-u) (set-clipboard-coding-system 'koi8-u) (set-terminal-coding-system 'koi8-u))) (defun reset-coding-system () (let () (set-keyboard-coding-system 'latin-1) (set-clipboard-coding-system nil) (set-terminal-coding-system nil))) Maybe someone will propose a better solution? Regards, Anton Zinoviev _______________________________________________ Emacs-devel mailing list Emacs-devel@gnu.org http://mail.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/emacs-devel