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: Chinese characters support Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 19:54:41 +0900 (JST) Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <20030513.195441.74751756.acmuller@gol.com> References: <84he8292dt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052826204 28509 80.91.224.249 (13 May 2003 11:43:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 11:43:24 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue May 13 13:43:22 2003 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 19FYBl-0007PT-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 13:43:21 +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 19FYCg-0005Kt-02 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 07:44:18 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FYAY-0004AI-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 07:42:06 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FXr8-0004ZT-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 07:22:03 -0400 Original-Received: from smtp01.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.131]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19FXRd-0001UG-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 13 May 2003 06:55:42 -0400 Original-Received: from db03.fields.gol.com ([203.216.5.173] helo=localhost) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 19FXRb-0003iT-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:39 +0900 Original-Received: from 203-216-51-157.dsl.gol.ne.jp ([203.216.51.157] helo=localhost) by smtp01.fields.gol.com with esmtp (Magnetic Fields) id 19FXRa-0003iQ-00 for ; Tue, 13 May 2003 19:55:38 +0900 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: Mew version 2.2 on Emacs 21.2 / Mule 5.0 (SAKAKI) X-Virus-Scanned: by AMaViS X-Abuse-Complaints: abuse@gol.com X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9666 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9666 Lee Sau Dan wrote: > And for XML in Chinese, utf-8 wastes lots of space. To be practical, > we often use big5 for XML files with Chinese. That's fine, if all you are doing is Chinese. The documents in my project include terms from over 15 languages, including Tibetan, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Pali, and several European languages. Unicode has codepoints for these characters, while Big5 (and other Chinese codesets) do not. Chuck --------------------------- Charles Muller Faculty of Humanities, Toyo Gakuen University Digital Dictionary of Buddhism and CJKV-English Dictionary [http://www.acmuller.net] H-Buddhism List Editor [http://www2.h-net.msu.edu/~buddhism/] Mobile Phone: 090-9310-1787