Re: [Mac-emacs-devel] jisx0201 display and x_list_fonts cache patch

[Andrew Choi <akochoi@shaw.ca>]

> The attached patch remedies some problems somewhat related to Japanese
> characters and input methods:
> 
>   1. displaying jisx0201 roman/kana characters
>      Basically this part is imported from mac/src/macterm.c in Emacs
>      21.2.  I confirmed that this patch works both with the Osaka font
>      (a built-in Japanese font in MacOS) and with converted ETL fonts.
> 
>   2. caching font lists in x_list_fonts
>      SKK, one of widely-used Japanese input methods in Emacs,
>      frequently changes the cursor color to reflect the current input
>      mode.  But Emacs in the current CVS invalidates the face cache
>      whenever the cursor color is changed (``++face_change_count;'' in
>      xfaces.c), and it causes lots of regexp matches in
>      mac_font_pattern_match.  With caching font lists in x_list_fonts,
>      which is already done in xterm.c, the reconstruction of the face
>      cache can be done without ``the spinning rainbow''.
> 
> 					YAMAMOTO Mitsuharu
> 				   mituharu@math.s.chiba-u.ac.jp
> 
> [...]

Hi Mitsuharu,

Thank you for sending in these patches.  I have tested them and
checked them into the CVS.

Andrew.