From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Hadron Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: g-client: character coding problem Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 12:31:14 +0200 Message-ID: <87odknsnm5.fsf@gmail.com> References: <87ejlk7oym.fsf@fabula.org> <87ejlkrb63.fsf@gmail.com> <87646w7mr3.fsf@gmail.com> <87646w7gmb.fsf@fabula.org> <87d514l9dm.fsf@gmail.com> <87zm47g866.fsf@lion.rapttech.com.au> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1179142355 5996 80.91.229.12 (14 May 2007 11:32:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 14 May 2007 11:32:35 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon May 14 13:32:34 2007 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1HnYn0-000551-1c for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 13:32:30 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1HnYuk-0003Xg-DN for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 14 May 2007 07:40:30 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newshub.stanford.edu!syros.belnet.be!news.belnet.be!newsfeed00.sul.t-online.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 41 Original-X-Trace: individual.net wFBl5730qIqZOhWvmajEQAyhvx7iIFO6ZCR0sfYkxgYXJKBn+8 X-Orig-Path: news.individual.net!news X-Face: 2h#||Cd#d%F*NCm59[_6/{1a@jy%; |j>{D~4^gKg(^i%7j0IK?+,/GmW&:CD5fEKb_! User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/23.0.0 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:s/dvPGx23y/xVzqLhChcp2av3Eg= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:148367 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:43950 Archived-At: Peter Dyballa writes: > Am 14.05.2007 um 09:45 schrieb Tim X: > >> BTW, can someone tell me what emacs 23 is? I'm running from CVS and >> it reports >> the version as emacs 22. I've seen a number of references to emacs >> 23, which >> I've not heard of and didn't think existed (given that I would >> expect the CVS >> to be the latest version). > > It's another branch (unicode-2) of GNU Emacs. It is based on Unicode > as a means to represent text characters. Therefore a particular > character has the same code no matter what encoding is used in that > buffer. You can isearch for à or ï in every buffer and every > encoding. It also uses anti-aliasing (although I am not sure whether > I see the effect) and an experimental font-backend, that seems to be > different from the fontsets used in earlier Emacsen. Another > difference is the use of font-config library. Recently libotf has > been introduced into the code, but it still does not use OpenType > fonts. All the changes that happen to GNU Emacs 22 in CVS can be > found after some delay in Unicode Emacs 23. > > Documentation is not perfect, there is no explicit mentioning of Emacs > 23 specific functions and you have to search a lot to understand how > to make use of the additions. It seems to me that the extra code for > Carbon Emacs (for Mac OS X) is buggy and not supported and > maintained. Besides, the X client runs quite reliable! Interestingly enough, with exact same .emacs, my "international german characters" have stopped working in both input ( I have to press umlaut A 3 times before a japanese character appears) and output (any mail I receive with german characters just shows squares). Any idea what remedial action to take? is there some sort of x-resource I need to change to get my german characters back? --