From: Chong Yidong <cyd@stupidchicken.com>
Subject: Re: Problem with non-bmp unicode
Date: Fri, 10 Nov 2006 11:46:47 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87veln6yh4.fsf@cyd.mit.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200611080926.14997.jmarant@free.fr> (Jérôme Marant's message of "Wed\, 8 Nov 2006 09\:26\:14 +0100")
> An UTF-8 file (attached) with these three characters:
> U+0022 U+00010380 U+0022
> shows with "emacs -nw":
> "\360\220\216\200"
> which is not usable at all. The file displays correctly if I cat it.
>
> I tried a bunch of other characters outside the BMP, all of which
> fail in the same way. Characters in the BMP work nicely.
>
> Apparently, emacs 22 shows a question mark instead of "\360\220\216\200"
> but trying to delete the question mark character with backspace turn it into
> "\360\220\216".
Do we support display/editing of characters outside the BMP?
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2006-11-08 8:26 Problem with non-bmp unicode Jérôme Marant
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