From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Gulliver7 Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: displaying escaped unicode files Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:15:56 -0700 (PDT) Message-ID: <6278274.post@talk.nabble.com> References: <6269354.post@talk.nabble.com> <570f4$45074d86$49f11e3$5323@DIALUPUSA.NET> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1158117391 26306 80.91.229.2 (13 Sep 2006 03:16:31 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 13 Sep 2006 03:16:31 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 13 05:16:30 2006 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNLEe-0004Ob-Nl for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 13 Sep 2006 05:16:25 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNLEe-0000nt-6S for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:16:24 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNLEF-0000jg-Op for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1GNLEE-0000jH-J6 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:15:59 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1GNLEE-0000jB-6N for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:15:58 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.35] (helo=talk.nabble.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA:32) (Exim 4.52) id 1GNLFr-0000Pm-51 for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 23:17:39 -0400 Original-Received: from [72.21.53.38] (helo=jubjub.nabble.com) by talk.nabble.com with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1GNLEC-0002cq-Nu for Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Tue, 12 Sep 2006 20:15:56 -0700 Original-To: Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <570f4$45074d86$49f11e3$5323@DIALUPUSA.NET> X-Nabble-From: rpontisso@yahoo.co.uk 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:37323 Archived-At: B. T. Raven-2 wrote: > > > "Gulliver7" wrote >> I'm running emacs 21.3 in Windows, and need to read and edit some text > files >> with UTF-8 encoding and others with escaped unicode encoding. I've > managed >> to get emacs to display the UTF-8 files correctly, but not the escaped >> unicode ones. The alphabet is Latin, but accented characters are not > being >> displayed properly in the escaped unicode files. What do I need to do > to >> get emacs to display the characters properly, regardless of whether I go >> into a UTF-8 or an escaped unicode file? > >> View this message in context: > http://www.nabble.com/displaying-escaped-unicode-files-tf2259865.html#a626 > 9354 > > If escaped unicode is a sequence of hexadecimal tetrads like \x00c0 or > \u00ce then David Love's ucs-tables.el could be used to convert them to > the glyphs at the corresponding Unicode code points by reading each "word" > or token in the file and then passing it to ucs-insert. You would then see > the foreign language character as long as you had an appropriate font or > font-set installed. I've heard that we have to wait for Emacs 23 before we > see seamless Unicode support. > > Ed > Thank you for your reply. I've looked at a description of "ucs-tables.el", and I think I need things described in layman's terms. Is this a plugin of some sort for emacs that will convert the characters into something readable? If so, what happens when I use emacs to edit the file? Will the characters retain their unicode-ness to satisfy the applications that require the \uXXXX format? And how will any new accented characters be encoded? Thank you. -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/displaying-escaped-unicode-files-tf2259865.html#a6278274 Sent from the Emacs - Help forum at Nabble.com.