From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Dave Love Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: windows-1251 language environment Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:40:13 +0100 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <200310032356.54476.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310060013.52049.pogonyshev@gmx.net> <200310070254.LAA11795@etlken.m17n.org> <200310081040.TAA15162@etlken.m17n.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1065973628 10418 80.91.224.253 (12 Oct 2003 15:47:08 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 12 Oct 2003 15:47:08 +0000 (UTC) Cc: pogonyshev@gmx.net, emacs-devel@gnu.org, jasonr@f2s.com, Kenichi Handa Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sun Oct 12 17:47:06 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8iR0-0003Vm-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8iR0-0001y2-00 for ; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 17:47:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A8iOj-0004EQ-DT for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:44:45 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A8iLS-00039v-GF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:41:22 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.24) id 1A8iKv-00033f-8U for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:41:21 -0400 Original-Received: from [148.79.80.39] (helo=albion.dl.ac.uk) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.24) id 1A8iKO-0002vf-6n; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 11:40:16 -0400 Original-Received: from fx by albion.dl.ac.uk with local (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1A8iKL-0005cH-00; Sun, 12 Oct 2003 16:40:13 +0100 Original-To: rms@gnu.org User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.2 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.2 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:17042 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:17042 Richard Stallman writes: > Is it useful enough to warrant spending time writing it and debugging > it, and spend time and paper documenting it? We could do other things > instead. Apart from making `language' settings interact well with the locale charset, another thing that needs to be done in this area is customizing fontsets conveniently and making the default font usage sensible for the locale. E.g. users presumably want to favour a windows-1251 font for all characters it can encode when the locale uses windows-1251 (although in that case it isn't a standard X encoding, and I don't know if any X fonts use it). I ran into problems related to normal face customization when I worked on it, and I don't think they got fixed.