From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: What is a preferred charset?
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 18:04:34 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83pnuyh0x9.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvr2fela5x.fsf-monnier+gmane.emacs.devel@gnu.org> (message from Stefan Monnier on Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:40:42 -0500)
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2018 10:40:42 -0500
>
> And IIUC the only impact it has is on the choice of font to display it.
> For latin chars, this tends to make no difference, but for some Asian
> scripts it can make a much more significant difference because the same
> Unicode chars are used for different languages even though they are
> traditionally rendered differently in those different languages.
It can also have effect on Latin characters in Far Eastern locales,
because the default font might display them as double-width or
something.
> IOW, I think this `charset` property is used to solve the problems
> descried at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Han_unification
Not only. Some scripts need special support from the font, and AFAIR
this property also helps with that.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-21 16:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-21 14:55 What is a preferred charset? Stephen Berman
2018-11-21 15:24 ` Andreas Schwab
2018-11-21 15:40 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-11-21 16:04 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-11-21 16:48 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-21 22:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-21 22:44 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-22 3:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22 9:07 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-22 15:30 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-11-22 16:28 ` Stephen Berman
2018-11-21 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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