Re: new Emacs HELLO file??

[bh@izb.knu.ac.kr (牛粥)]

At Thu, 03 Sep 2009 22:07:50 +0900,
Kenichi Handa wrote:
> 
> In article <873a762ylx.fsf@mail.jurta.org>, Juri Linkov <juri@jurta.org> writes:
> 
> > > As iso-2022-7bit has designation sequences for each
> > > character set, Emacs can use that information to add proper
> > > `charset' property, and that property infulence the font
> > > selection.
> 
> > The purpose of the HELLO file is to demonstrate Emacs multilingual
> > capabilities.  It currently does this using iso-2022-7bit.  Does this
> > mean that UTF-8 is not the best coding system for multilingual texts
> > in Emacs, because UTF-8 has some limitations (doesn't provide the
> > proper font selection, loses cjk variants), so iso-2022-7bit is the
> > preferable coding system for multilingual texts in Emacs?
> 
> At least for CJK characters included in legacy character
> sets (e.g. JISX0208, GB2312, etc), iso-2022-7bit is still
> better than utf-8 if we concern font selection.
> 
> > Is it possible
> > to improve the UTF-8 support in Emacs since most files use it nowadays?
> 
> For that, we must use language tags, but they are strongly
> discouraged by Unicode.  Unicode doesn't concern font
> selection problem.  It says that it is a task of higher
> level information, for instance, that is provided by XML's
> language tag.

According to Handa-san's mentions,
if we do not use iso-2022-7bit, we cannot do input/output of non-ascii
characters. Is that right? Still i'm wondering what it means ...

Sincerely,

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