Re: Editing the 0x80..0x90 characters

["Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>]

> From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
> Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 14:29:09 -0400
> 
> I think the idea was that using mule-unicode is better than using
> eight-bit-graphic.  For instance saving in utf-8 should then work.
> Also it would solve the problem of dislaying those chars since you then just
> need a unicode font

I think this is a good idea, then.

> > Can you say a few words about its purpose?  I could figure that out from
> > the code, but having some description as guidelines would help.  TIA.
> 
> I hope the paragraph above makes it more clear.

It does, thanks.

> Check out mule-cmds.el and you'll see that there is already a mapping
> from the "uk" locale to the "Ukrainian" language environment (although
> this environment doesn't seem to exist yet).  I don't think the actual name
> has any importance otherwise.

I agree.  FWIW, I think the name "Ukrainian" is better, and a couple
of past discussions here seem to confirm that (as expressed by people
who use Ukrainian).

Btw, if we do introduce an Ukrainian language environment, we should
probably modify po.el accordingly -- there's an undefined association
there.