From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Robin Hu Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chinese characters support Date: Thu, 08 May 2003 15:33:51 +0800 Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <3EB991D2.7080208@eecs.wsu.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052379611 1814 80.91.224.249 (8 May 2003 07:40:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 8 May 2003 07:40:11 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 08 09:40:02 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Dg0Y-0000SB-00 for ; Thu, 08 May 2003 09:40:02 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Dg1R-0002tZ-07 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 08 May 2003 03:40:57 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed1.e.nsc.no!nsc.no!nextra.com!uio.no!quimby.gnus.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 211.157.205.131 Original-X-Trace: quimby.gnus.org 1052379401 22991 211.157.205.131 (8 May 2003 07:36:41 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby.gnus.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 8 May 2003 07:36:41 GMT User-Agent: Gnus/5.1001 (Gnus v5.10.1) Emacs/21.3.50 (windows-nt) Cancel-Lock: sha1:5DGC41E+2heZBAMp4n11ZIhckiI= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:112933 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9428 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9428 >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller writes: Charles> Gaoyan Xie wrote >> I am trying to explore GNU emacs's multilingual support, and what >> I want is the display and input of Chinese characters. Have any >> of you done this before? I tried according to GNU emacs' online >> manual, but still couldn't make it work. BTW, I am using Redhat >> Linux 7.2 and GNU emacs 20.7. Charles> I would recommend first that you consider installing a Charles> newer 21.x version of Emacs if you are concerned about Charles> international script support. A newer version of RedHat Charles> would not hurt either. I am using RH9 with Emacs 21.2 and Charles> Chinese and Japanese display without me having to do Charles> anything, as long as the documents are encoded in JIS for Charles> Japanese and Big5 for Chinese. Charles> When it comes to working with UTF-8, I have never heard of Charles> anyone succeeding in displaying East Asian scripts without Charles> installing the TEI-Emacs add-on. I am using Mule-Ucs 0.84 (patches from debian applied) with Emacs 21.3.50, it seems to work fine. So what is "TEI-Emacs add-on", can you point me out URLs related? Charles> Chuck -- The goal of science is to build better mousetraps. The goal of nature is to build better mice.