From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shaddy Baddah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: More unicode blocks? Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:28:00 +0800 Message-ID: <43359AB0.1050300@msa.hinet.net> Reply-To: Shaddy.Baddah@msa.hinet.net, help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127586787 5649 80.91.229.2 (24 Sep 2005 18:33:07 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 24 Sep 2005 18:33:07 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 24 20:32:57 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJEog-00032Q-8j for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 20:32:06 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJEof-0005jH-N0 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:32:05 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EJEoF-0005fc-QQ for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:31:39 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EJEoD-0005eP-29 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:31:37 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EJEoC-0005dH-T7 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:31:36 -0400 Original-Received: from [168.95.4.119] (helo=msr19.hinet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EJEky-0001i4-SO for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 24 Sep 2005 14:28:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.228.219.55] (61-228-219-55.dynamic.hinet.net [61.228.219.55]) by msr19.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id CAA26475; Sun, 25 Sep 2005 02:28:12 +0800 (CST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org 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:29686 Archived-At: Hi, Today, I finally did what I had resolved to do some time ago. I delved into emacs's unicode support facilities. I am a little disappointed, because it has become apparent that the unicode character set support is limited to 3 specific blocks of the full unicode character set, those being the blocks that start and end at the indexes expressed in mule-unicode-0100-24ff, mule-unicode-2500-33ff and mule-unicode-e000-ffff. The blocks that I am interested in are the CJK Unified Ideographs blocks , that start at unicode index 0x4E00. Specifically, the characters that are shared by the character set encoded via the big5 encoding scheme. I have no problems displaying and editing these characters under the big5 coding scheme, so they are obviously well supported by emacs (and it's internal coding scheme, right?). So, what is the impediment, or perhaps rationale, behind the lack of support for the additional unicode blocks at this stage of Emacs development? Is it simply to do with someone having to implement some type of character translation tables, or is there/how much more is there to it? Regards, Shaddy P.S: please honour my reply-to email field.