From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann)
Subject: Re: Reading national characters in filenames on Mac OS X?
Date: Sun, 27 Apr 2003 21:50:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <84wuhfoh24.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: m2fzo3spdf.fsf@bredband.net
Jonas Steverud <tvrud-usenet@spray.se> writes:
> kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes:
>
>> Ah, I didn't know what was meant by «normalized UTF-8». It's a pity
>> that Emacs doesn't grok it.
>
> So, if I understand this correctly, I will be able to edit my
> non-english files if I set file-coding-system to 'utf-8 and finds an
> UTF-8 font.
>
> Correct?
Well, if I understand correctly, ä is represented by the OS as two
characters. First comes a, and then comes a special two-dot
character that combines with the preceding character to add the two
dots.
Emacs doesn't understand this kind of Unicode, I think.
It only understands the kind of Unicode where ä is represented by one
character.
> If so, how do I find such a font on my system? I checked xfontsel and
> the "only" selections for "encdng" *, 0, 1, 2, ..., 10, 13, 14, 15,
> dectech, fontspecific, irv, r, ru, standard and symbol.
>
> (I don't know what half of them stands for. The numbers are ISO 8859,
> but the others I do not know.)
Hm. You use X11? There is a package called unifont.
> Or are there a better/easier way of selection a "UTF-8 font" for Emacs?
I never tried that.
I installed the unifont package and the GNU intlfonts package. And
that gave me lots of characters. (Both packages contain X11 fonts.
Are you using X11?) I installed the Debian packages.
> I presume that the fonts that comes with Mac OS X are UTF-8 encoded,
> right? If so, I assume I need to tell something something that Emacs
> should be able to use this too, right?
Not sure whether X11 Emacs can use Aqua fonts.
> Shouldn't I set terminal-coding-system (or whatever the variabels name
> is) to something too? set-language-environment sets a lot of things.
I think terminal-coding-system isn't relevant in a window system.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-04-27 19:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-04-26 7:18 Reading national characters in filenames on Mac OS X? Jonas Steverud
2003-04-26 14:29 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 5:06 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-27 6:48 ` Jonas Steverud
2003-04-27 11:59 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 19:21 ` Jonas Steverud
2003-04-27 19:35 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 13:02 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-27 11:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 12:57 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-27 14:04 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 17:19 ` Karl Eichwalder
2003-04-27 19:24 ` Jonas Steverud
2003-04-27 14:28 ` Piet van Oostrum
2003-04-27 19:09 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-04-27 19:37 ` Jonas Steverud
2003-04-27 19:50 ` Kai Großjohann [this message]
2003-04-28 18:42 ` Piet van Oostrum
2003-04-28 20:16 ` Jonas Steverud
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