From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs Subject: emacs russification Date: Mon, 8 Apr 2002 18:05:47 +0400 Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: <000001c1dfc0$c0163400$219d693e@msu2poh44z8rz9> NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1DF28.026ABCC0" X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1018354695 8928 127.0.0.1 (9 Apr 2002 12:18:15 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2002 12:18:15 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.33 #1 (Debian)) id 16uuZi-0002Jt-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 14:18:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uuZd-0001Ip-00; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:18:09 -0400 Original-Received: from palmolive.yandex.ru ([213.180.193.106]) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 3.34 #1 (Debian)) id 16uuZD-0001IO-00 for ; Tue, 09 Apr 2002 08:17:43 -0400 Original-Received: from n7-33.card.co.ru ([62.105.157.33]:11780 "HELO msu2poh44z8rz9" ident: "NO-IDENT-SERVICE[2]" whoson: "vremennik" TLS-CIPHER: TLS-PEER: ) by mail.yandex.ru with SMTP id ; Tue, 9 Apr 2002 16:17:21 +0400 Original-To: X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 6.00.2600.0000 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V6.00.2600.0000 Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.8 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Bug reports for GNU Emacs, the Swiss army knife of text editors List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:5155370 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.bugs:515 This is a multi-part message in MIME format. ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1DF28.026ABCC0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Dear sirs! As I can see, there are two ways to work with cyrillic letters in Emacs: = first based on iso8859-5 and second based on utf-8. But at present all = available encoders/decoders and language environments for cyrillic = languages are based on iso8859-5. Moreover, there is no support (I mean, = in user interface level) for cyrillic codepage cp1251, although it is = the only codepage used in Windows and it becames popular in Linux, too. = And, as I can see, there are no input methods for utf-8 cyrillics = included in distribution. So, I want to ask, if there are some plans to = improve cyrillic support in Mule/Emacs. May be, it could be a good idea = to replace iso8859 as a base for encoding cyrillic characters with = utf-8? If somebody works with such a project? And, if not, can I = contribute to Emacs writing new utf8-based encoding/decoding procedures = and input methods? Alexej Kryukov Moscow State University basileia@yandex.ru ------=_NextPart_000_0005_01C1DF28.026ABCC0 Content-Type: text/html; charset="koi8-r" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable
Dear sirs!
 
As I can see, there are two ways to = work with=20 cyrillic letters in Emacs: first based on iso8859-5 and second based on = utf-8.=20 But at present all available encoders/decoders and language environments = for=20 cyrillic languages are based on iso8859-5. Moreover, there is no support = (I=20 mean, in user interface level) for cyrillic codepage cp1251, although it = is the=20 only codepage used in Windows and it becames popular in Linux, too. = And, as=20 I can see, there are no input methods for utf-8=20 cyrillics included in distribution. So, I want to ask, if = there are=20 some plans to improve cyrillic support in Mule/Emacs. May be, it could = be a good=20 idea to replace iso8859 as a base for encoding cyrillic characters = with=20 utf-8? If somebody works with such a project? And, if not, can I = contribute to=20 Emacs writing new utf8-based encoding/decoding procedures and input=20 methods?
 
Alexej Kryukov
Moscow State University
basileia@yandex.ru
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