From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Miles Bader Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Status of Unicode integration/support Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:43:29 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030728224329.GA9391@gnu.org> References: <16165.17969.832795.788850@magrathea.basistech.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1059432492 4932 80.91.224.249 (28 Jul 2003 22:48:12 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 28 Jul 2003 22:48:12 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Tue Jul 29 00:48:11 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19hGmp-0001HM-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:48:11 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19hGo0-00013y-00 for ; Tue, 29 Jul 2003 00:49:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19hGmY-0001Cr-Ro for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:47:54 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19hGm3-0001BP-HW for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:47:23 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.20) id 19hGm1-0001AU-OF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:47:22 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19hGiI-0007lu-Gh for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:43:30 -0400 Original-Received: from miles by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.20) id 19hGiH-0002kn-LA; Mon, 28 Jul 2003 18:43:29 -0400 Original-To: Tom Emerson Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <16165.17969.832795.788850@magrathea.basistech.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.28i Blat: Foop X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:15724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:15724 On Mon, Jul 28, 2003 at 11:50:09AM -0400, Tom Emerson wrote: > Can someone summarize the status of the Unicode implementation in the > current CVS Emacs, especially as it relates to CJK and Arabic? What, > if anything, needs to be done to build a version with this support? I can't speak officially (nor authoritatively), but I've found that the current CVS emacs handles CJK unicode stuff (e.g. utf-8) wonderfully if you turn on `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (which is turned of by default to avoid loading some large tables); I don't know about arabic. Note that this is _not_ the future `unicode emacs', just the usual emacs with proper handling of unicody encodings. I don't think that any special attention is needed to build emacs with this support. Interestingly I tried setting my login LANG to `ja_JP.utf-8' for a while, and emacs was one of the few programs that got it right; mozilla wouldn't start, and gnome (2.2) programs crashed left and right! -Miles -- Quidquid latine dictum sit, altum viditur.