From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Sven Bretfeld Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: gnu vs. xemacs Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:59:43 +0100 Message-ID: <17810.31823.986927.362052@kamaloka.dhatu> References: <1167219981.424569.215160@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> Reply-To: sven.bretfeld@gmx.ch NNTP-Posting-Host: dough.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1167228034 19501 80.91.229.10 (27 Dec 2006 14:00:34 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:00:34 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 27 15:00:28 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by dough.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GzZKP-0004ym-GC for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 15:00:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzZKO-0005gE-La for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 09:00:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzZJy-0005dy-3I for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:59:54 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GzZJw-0005cm-8g for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:59:53 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GzZJw-0005cg-3A for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:59:52 -0500 Original-Received: from [194.158.229.48] (helo=smtp-auth-be-01.sunrise.ch) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GzZJv-0002Vi-HZ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 08:59:51 -0500 Original-Received: from kamaloka.dhatu (adsl-84-226-42-155.adslplus.ch [84.226.42.155]) by smtp-auth-be-01.sunrise.ch (8.13.1/8.13.5) with ESMTP id kBRDxi6D021043 for ; Wed, 27 Dec 2006 14:59:44 +0100 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: <1167219981.424569.215160@73g2000cwn.googlegroups.com> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:39950 Archived-At: When I started using Emacs one year ago I knew almost nothing. I was thinking XEmacs is Emacs for X-Window systems (like many people seem to do). So I installed it, mainly because I use LaTeX since many years and I was looking for a Linux editor as powerful as WinEdt which I had been using under MS-Windows. To my disappointment XEmacs was not able to handle all the utf8-characters I needed. It might be a matter of my too small knowledge at that time, but I couldn't get the diacritics needed for Sanskrit transcriptions to work. Somewhere I read that XEmacs doesn't fully support unicode representation. However, it worked immediately with GnuEmacs. Namely I need characters like underdotted t or n which represent certain Indian consonants spoken with the tongue bent backwards. Best wishes, Sven