From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Charles Muller Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:59:24 +0900 (JST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <20020924.175924.71081843.acmuller@gol.com> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1032857899 13004 127.0.0.1 (24 Sep 2002 08:58:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 24 Sep 2002 08:58:19 +0000 (UTC) Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 17tlWL-0003Na-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 10:58:18 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tlWQ-0005tN-00; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:58:22 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tlVJ-0005cR-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:57:13 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10) id 17tlVH-0005cF-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:57:12 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17tlVG-0005cB-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 04:57:11 -0400 Original-Received: from 203-216-51-063.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.51.63] helo=localhost) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 17tlVF-0006LF-00 for ; Tue, 24 Sep 2002 17:57:09 +0900 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1779 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1779 Miles Bader asked: >I'm sure, but saying `download an entirely new version of emacs' is a >rather heavyweight solution. As I understand it, it is not an entirely new version, in the sense that it does not replace the basic program files for Emacs itself. But it supplies its own version of Mule-UCS, and everything concerned with doing XML/HTML/XSLT in international environments. > If they've hacked emacs to do a better job of this, how did they do it? > Did they ever try to submit their changes back to emacs? I am not a member of the TEI Consortium, so I can't answer this. Certainly, all the source code for what they've done is readily and openly available for anyone interested. All I know is that before I began to use this package, when doing mail in Emacs (21.2), there was never any automatic recognition of any kinds of non-Western encoding. Now it recognizes Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and whatever, whether these be in the local encoding (JIS, Big5, etc.) or Unicode, without me having to do "prefer-coding-system" or anything like that. As a person working in several languages, Emacs would be of very little use to me without this. Chuck --------------------------- Charles Muller Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary [http://www.acmuller.net] Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787