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From: "Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren" <r.m.b.lindgren@usit.uio.no>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [Q] GNu Emacs/MacOS X/Font Encoding
Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 22:35:08 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <lbzwuh19nyb.fsf@aqualene.uio.no> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y91hi4e2.fsf@owlbear.local> (Andrew Choi's message of "Thu, 08 May 2003 14:12:53 -0600")

[Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren]

| [...] I (along, I presume, with all or most Europeans) cannot use
| Emacs in multibyte mode.  so this _must_ work in unibyte mode.  [...]

[Andrew Choi]

| Why not?

as I mentioned, LaTeX for instance does not understand multibyte
characeters.  in fact most software does not.  in order to avoid having
to filter all our files before feeding them to other software, we need
a GNU Emacs that can read and write Latin 1 properly using unibyte.  

-- 
Rolf Lindgren                                            http://www.roffe.com/
roffe@tag.uio.no

  reply	other threads:[~2003-05-08 20:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2003-05-08 10:28 [Q] GNu Emacs/MacOS X/Font Encoding Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2003-05-08 15:42 ` Andrew Choi
2003-05-08 16:39   ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2003-05-08 18:41     ` Andrew Choi
2003-05-08 20:05       ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2003-05-08 20:12         ` Andrew Choi
2003-05-08 20:35           ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren [this message]
2003-05-08 20:57             ` Andrew Choi
2003-05-08 21:20             ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-08 22:43               ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2003-05-08 22:45                 ` Rolf Marvin Bøe Lindgren
2003-05-08 22:59                 ` Stefan Monnier
2003-05-09 17:07                 ` Richard Stallman
2003-05-09  1:26             ` Miles Bader

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