Re: emacs 22 release

[Kevin Rodgers <ihs_4664@yahoo.com>]

Peter Dyballa wrote:
 > I don't see so many changes from stable GNU Emacs 21.4 to GNU Emacs 22
 > from CVS. The latter still can't handle completely the case of dealing
 > with more than one ISO or Unicode encoding.

Did you happen to turn off unify-8859-on-encoding-mode?  (It's enabled
in Emacs 22 by default.)  Did you try turning on
unify-8859-on-decoding-mode?

 > And printing is still bad
 > too! This message comes from trying to print a buffer in ISO 8859-15/ISO
 > Latin-9:
 >
 >     These characters in the buffer can't be printed:
 > 	 €,  , ¡, ¢, £, €, ¥, Š, §, š, ©, ª, «, ¬, ­, and more...
 >     Click them to jump to the buffer position,
 >     or C-u C-x = will give information about them.
 >
 > And it's not even true, since I can see ¡, ¢, £, §, ©, ª, «, ¬, ­ ...

Have you submitted a bug report?  Looking at the source code, it might
be useful to `M-x debug-on-entry RET ps-mule-show-warning RET' and
report what `e unprintable-charsets RET' shows when invoked in the
*Backtrace* buffer.

Also, that error message includes 4 characters that are outside ISO
8859-x: 0x80 (twice), 0x8A, and 0x9A.  Your message was sent as:

	Content-Type: text/plain; charset=WINDOWS-1252; format=flowed
	Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

 > Is it really that complicated to determine the system's TrueType fonts
 > and use the Unicode encoded ones to print in whatever ISO, Greek, or
 > Cyrillic encoding? Or in Arabic or Hebrew?

I don't know, but I suspect it is hard to do for all the platforms that
Emacs supports.

 > I'd look forward to Unicode Emacs 23.

You'd be looking very far forward.

-- 
Kevin Rodgers