From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chinese characters support Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 20:58:30 +0300 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <3028-Sat10May2003205830+0300-eliz@elta.co.il> References: <841xz6q3nc.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <20030511.011725.71089640.acmuller@gol.com> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052589816 14702 80.91.224.249 (10 May 2003 18:03:36 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 10 May 2003 18:03:36 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 10 20:03:34 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 19EYh4-0003ow-00 for ; Sat, 10 May 2003 20:03:34 +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 19EYh9-00054I-05 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:03:39 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EYge-0004dg-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:03:08 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EYgO-00047U-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:02:54 -0400 Original-Received: from gandalf.inter.net.il ([192.114.186.22]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19EYgH-0003iu-00 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 10 May 2003 14:02:46 -0400 Original-Received: from zaretsky (cable-130-147.inter.net.il [213.8.130.147]) by gandalf.inter.net.il (Mirapoint Messaging Server MOS 3.2.2-GA) with ESMTP id AOI44200; Sat, 10 May 2003 21:02:10 +0300 (IDT) Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 1.8.9 In-reply-to: <20030511.011725.71089640.acmuller@gol.com> (message from Charles Muller on Sun, 11 May 2003 01:17:25 +0900 (JST)) 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:9540 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9540 > Date: Sun, 11 May 2003 01:17:25 +0900 (JST) > Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help > From: Charles Muller > > I should be pointed out, nonetheless, that it is a bad idea to > cite the hello file as an example of international script functionality, > since it is set in an encoding that virtually no one ever uses (at least in > the CJK world) It is certainly useful to see whether Emacs is set up correctly for its non-ASCII support, including coding systems, fonts, and other facilities. Whether other software understands the way that file was encoded is irrelevant for this. > Someone should either get rid of that file or save it in a > relevant encoding. Until Emacs supports the full range of Unicode characters, the encoding used now to save etc/HELLO is about _the_only_ one that can do the job. Let me remind you that in the released versions of Emacs, only a subset of the BMP is supported.