From: Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp>
Cc: anton@lml.bas.bg, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments
Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2002 20:46:12 +0900 (JST) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200202271146.UAA05467@etlken.m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: message from Eli Zaretskii on Wed, 27 Feb 2002 13:10:41 +0200 (IST)
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
> On Wed, 27 Feb 2002, Anton Zinoviev wrote:
>> Even when users choose some non-Latin1 language environment Emacs
>> doesn't suppose that it's new default encoding is actually the
>> encoding of the X-clipboard, the console font, etc. This can be
>> easily changed in this way:
> Why change it? The default for X selections is compound-text, which can
> handle many different languages/scripts mixed in a single selection.
> What you propose (to set it to koi8-u) will limit the selections to a
> single charset. Why is that a good idea?
It may be good for such koi8-u environment that uses koi8-u
encoding directly for X selection and all the other X
applications expect that.
But, such a usage is against X's ICCCM (Inter-Client
Communication Conventions Manual) that says STRING type
selection can contain ASCII and Latin-1 only.
And it seems that the world is moving toward using UTF-8 or
using "Non-Standard Character Set Encodings" of
compound-text.
Are there any consensus in koi8-u community for such a usage
(i.e. using koi8-u directly in X selection)?
If not, I too agree with Eli. Keep on using compound-text
as the default coding system for X selection is better.
By the way, the support for "Non-Standard Character Set
Encodings" in compound-text is recently added to Emacs by
the effort of Eli. Currently it doesn't support koi8-u
because we haven't heard that people started to use that
method for koi8-u.
---
Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp
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Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2002-02-27 11:46 Kenichi Handa [this message]
2002-02-27 12:11 ` "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments Eli Zaretskii
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2002-02-27 11:29 Anton Zinoviev
2002-02-27 11:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-01 18:00 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-01 18:23 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-01 19:57 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-05 10:57 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-05 17:28 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-06 18:27 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-06 19:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-06 20:16 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-07 6:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-13 20:13 ` Anton Zinoviev
2002-03-15 7:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-22 12:25 ` Eli Zaretskii
2002-03-01 1:28 ` Stefan Monnier
2002-03-01 7:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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