From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Jason Rumney Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chinese characters support Date: 14 May 2003 22:07:05 +0100 Organization: freedom2surf Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84el36a9ly.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84of287xce.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84r871ijdb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052947322 27213 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 21:22:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:22:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 23:21:59 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 19G3gz-00073B-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 23:21:42 +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 19G3WG-0000gT-00 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 17:10:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!newsfeed.multikabel.nl!news2.euro.net!transit.news.cuci.nl!cleanfeed.casema.net!newsfeed.uk.prserv.net!prserv.net!news.freedom2surf.net!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 14 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 195.137.103.251 Original-X-Trace: news.freedom2surf.net 1052946448 19938 195.137.103.251 (14 May 2003 21:07:28 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@freedom2surf.net Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 21:07:28 +0000 (UTC) X-Face: .PruP48JRO{Z6Rfz?YkZ>)zR+7!Up"`!1Cvq{fGd)@K; y]C:8r\CrJ^Mj\_U"9*WD2 I#zdK_#tw]y9*Y$?ge&b23Zt7zpknL{)F7Px4DVSY6b9dg[^VtkN-R_$YJ0cL''j[,}O#k{k| User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113239 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:9736 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9736 kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (Kai Großjohann) writes: > Why not include UTF-8 characters in the HELLO file? I gather that > iso-2022 is general enough to also allow using UTF-8 as one of the > encodings it supports. compound-text-with-extensions does, but not pure iso-2022 AFAIK. Anyway, HELLO is in emacs-mule encoding, which is a 16-bit encoding based on iso-2022, so only supports a certain fixed number of character sets (most iso-2022 based encodings only support 2 or 3 character sets). CVS Emacs does contain some unicode text in HELLO, but only a subset of Unicode is supported without conversion (hence the existence of `utf-translate-cjk-mode' which causes the large translation tables to be loaded).