From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Andrew Choi Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Q] GNu Emacs/MacOS X/Font Encoding Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 14:57:05 -0600 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052427812 6053 80.91.224.249 (8 May 2003 21:03:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 21:03:32 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 23:03:29 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19DsY5-0001ZQ-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2003 23:03:29 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Dsci-0005XP-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2003 23:08:17 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DsZ2-0005yT-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:04:28 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DsXt-0005FQ-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:03:17 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DsXS-00051Q-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:02:50 -0400 Original-Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10] helo=pd5mo3so.prod.shaw.ca) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19DsWd-0004We-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 17:01:59 -0400 Original-Received: from pd4mr3so.prod.shaw.ca (pd4mr3so-qfe3.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.141.214]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEL00DNV67JY9@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 14:57:19 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from pn2ml4so.prod.shaw.ca (pn2ml4so-qfe0.prod.shaw.ca [10.0.121.148]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEL00BK667JHL@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 14:57:19 -0600 (MDT) Original-Received: from owlbear.local.shawmail (h68-144-207-94.cg.shawcable.net [68.144.207.94]) by l-daemon (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.14 (built Mar 18 2003)) with ESMTP id <0HEL0004067I4M@l-daemon> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 14:57:18 -0600 (MDT) In-reply-to: Original-To: emacs-devel@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3.50 Original-Lines: 20 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13773 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13773 Rolf Marvin B=F8e Lindgren writes: > | [...] I (along, I presume, with all or most Europeans) cannot use > | Emacs in multibyte mode. so this _must_ work in unibyte mode. [...] >=20 > [Andrew Choi] >=20 > | Why not? >=20 > 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.=20=20 I cannot believe this is true. But such /user/ questions should not be discussed here any further. Perhaps you should post a new question to gnu.emacs.help asking people how to set up Emacs correctly to handle Latin 1 characters without using unibyte.