RE: NT Emacs Latin & cyrillic script

[Dmitri.Minaev@britishcouncil.ru]

Hello, Benjamin,

To enable cp1251 codepage in Emacs/MULE, add to .emacs the following:

   (codepage-setup 1251)
   (define-coding-system-alias 'windows-1251 'cp1251)
   (set-selection-coding-system 'cp1251)

That should be enough to use cp1251 coding system.

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With best regards,
Dmitri Minaev


> -----Original Message-----
> From: Benjamin Riefenstahl [mailto:Benjamin.Riefenstahl@epost.de]
> Sent: Thursday, April 10, 2003 9:19 PM
> To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> Subject: Re: NT Emacs Latin & cyrillic script
> 
> 
> Hi Ulrich,
> 
> 
> "Ulrich Dirr" <ud@art-satz.de> writes:
> > I've downloaded a precompiled version of 21.2 and installed it.
> > Everything is working well, even auctex (on Win2k).
> > 
> > But I would like to input and display latin and cyrillic scripts
> > simultaneously. I've read a lot of docs but now I'm more 
> confused than
> > before.
> >
> > [...]
> > 
> > Does the language/keyboard support which I've activated in 
> Win2k help?
> > Or is this independent of emacs?
> 
> It helps, but it is independent of Emacs.  Because Emacs doesn't (yet)
> use Unicode input, in addition to tell the OS to *send* cyrillic
> keyboard input, you need to tell Emacs to switch *interpreting*
> keyboard input in cyrillic.
> 
> So first you use set-keyboard-coding-system (C-x RET k) to switch
> Emacs to cyrillic, than you use the languages menu on the taskbar (or
> a Windows keyboard shortcut, if you have assigned one) to switch the
> OS.  You do it the other way around to switch out of cyrillic.
> 
> One problem is that 21.2 doesn't have the appropriate coding system
> for cyrillic on Windows (cp1251) [*] which you need as a parameter for
> set-keyboard-coding-system.  You can get it from Emacs CVS
> (lisp/international/code-pages.el) but last I tried that version with
> Emacs 21.2 it required some support files and tweaking.  Mail me for
> details if you want to pursue this and you can't get it to work.
> 
>   [*] Somebody please correct me if I am wrong.  And no, cp1251
>   doesn't seem to be compatible with iso8859-5.
> 
> An alternative would of course be to get Emacs from CVS and compile it
> yourself, if you can do that.
> 
> > It should be possible to input cyrillic easily with my keyboard. It
> > should display correctly as cyrillic, and it should be possible to
> > TeX it (say T2A encoding). And I want to be able to switch to latin
> > back.
> 
> I don't know about TeX specific issues. 
> 
> 
> Hope this helps, benny
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