From: Lee Sau Dan <danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de>
Subject: Re: Chinese characters support
Date: 15 May 2003 10:07:01 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m3addpp6y1.fsf@mika.informatik.uni-freiburg.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: mailman.6097.1052826249.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
Charles> Lee Sau Dan wrote:
>> And for XML in Chinese, utf-8 wastes lots of space. To be
>> practical, we often use big5 for XML files with Chinese.
Charles> That's fine, if all you are doing is Chinese. The
Charles> documents in my project include terms from over 15
Charles> languages, including Tibetan, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Pali,
Charles> and several European languages. Unicode has codepoints
Charles> for these characters, while Big5 (and other Chinese
Charles> codesets) do not.
The emacs-mule encoding also has code points for these characters.
Moreover, it can distinguish big5 characters from JIS characters (see
the "Difference among chinese characters in GB, JIS, KSC, BIG5:"
section in the HELLO file.), while Unicode (and hence utf-7, utf-8,
utf-16, ucs2, ucs4) cannot.
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
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[not found] <mailman.5730.1052348993.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-10 14:26 ` Chinese characters support Kai Großjohann
2003-05-10 16:17 ` Charles Muller
2003-05-10 16:45 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-10 17:31 ` Charles Muller
2003-05-10 18:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-11 2:11 ` Charles Muller
2003-05-11 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-11 13:59 ` Charles Muller
[not found] ` <mailman.5976.1052661651.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:29 ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-12 19:58 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 7:40 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-13 9:57 ` acmuller
2003-05-13 10:02 ` Robin Hu
2003-05-15 8:07 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-10 19:24 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-11 2:15 ` Charles Muller
2003-05-11 3:34 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5956.1052619415.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:56 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-13 3:36 ` Charles Muller
2003-05-14 3:14 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6084.1052797097.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13 7:05 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-14 6:14 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-14 16:27 ` Kai Großjohann
2003-05-14 21:07 ` Jason Rumney
[not found] ` <mailman.5927.1052587973.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-12 19:27 ` Jason Rumney
2003-05-13 7:40 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-13 10:11 ` acmuller
2003-05-13 10:54 ` Charles Muller
[not found] ` <mailman.6097.1052826249.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-15 8:07 ` Lee Sau Dan [this message]
2003-05-10 17:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.5936.1052589798.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13 7:40 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-14 3:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.6156.1052882447.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-15 8:07 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-16 11:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2003-05-12 23:05 ` Michael Na Li
2003-05-13 7:02 ` Kai Großjohann
[not found] ` <mailman.5922.1052583563.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-13 7:40 ` Lee Sau Dan
2003-05-07 23:08 Gaoyan Xie
2003-05-08 6:27 ` Charles Muller
[not found] ` <mailman.5739.1052375326.21513.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2003-05-08 7:33 ` Robin Hu
2003-05-10 14:28 ` Kai Großjohann
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