From: "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments
Date: Fri, 01 Mar 2002 21:57:26 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8582-Fri01Mar2002215726+0200-eliz@is.elta.co.il> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20020301200057.A25880@fmi.uni-sofia.bg> (message from Anton Zinoviev on Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:00:58 +0200)
> Date: Fri, 1 Mar 2002 20:00:58 +0200
> From: Anton Zinoviev <anton@lml.bas.bg>
> >
> > Why change it? The default for X selections is compound-text, which can
> > handle many different languages/scripts mixed in a single selection.
> > What you propose (to set it to koi8-u) will limit the selections to a
> > single charset. Why is that a good idea?
>
> I was under impression that Emacs doesn't support compound-text. It
> doesn't touch command sequences and pasting from xterm gives something
> like:
>
> ^[%/1\200\212\koi8-r^B......
>
> where dots are Latin-1 letters instead of Cyrillic.
The current CVS version and the pretest of Emacs 21.2 do support the
above. Please try a newser version.
> In this case setting the keyboard won't make any harm to this user, as
> then he or she can use some of the input methods provided by Emacs.
> There is no situation when it might be usefull if Emacs interprets my
> Cyrillic input as Latin1.
See Stefan's response: the default is not Latin-1, and Emacs should
interpret your keyboard input correctly even without
keyboard-coding-system being set. If that doesn't work, please tell
the details; perhaps there's some bug.
> P.S. Should I cc you when replying?
You don't have to.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2002-03-01 19:57 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-27 11:29 "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments Anton Zinoviev
2002-02-27 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-01 18:00 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-01 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2002-03-05 10:57 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-05 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-06 18:27 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-06 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-06 20:16 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-07 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-13 20:13 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-15 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-01 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-01 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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2002-02-27 11:46 Kenichi Handa
2002-02-27 12:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
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