From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Werner LEMBERG Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: per-buffer language environments Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:25:03 +0100 (CET) Message-ID: <20101211.162503.37993912.wl@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1292081123 16120 80.91.229.12 (11 Dec 2010 15:25:23 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 11 Dec 2010 15:25:23 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Dec 11 16:25:18 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PRRK2-0007Xd-Jc for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 16:25:18 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:42444 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRRK1-0004Fz-U9 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:25:17 -0500 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=58009 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PRRJw-0004Ft-2T for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:25:12 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRRJu-0007nR-N5 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:25:11 -0500 Original-Received: from mailout-de.gmx.net ([213.165.64.23]:48744 helo=mail.gmx.net) by eggs.gnu.org with smtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PRRJu-0007mv-9e for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 11 Dec 2010 10:25:10 -0500 Original-Received: (qmail invoked by alias); 11 Dec 2010 15:25:07 -0000 Original-Received: from 178-191-249-121.adsl.highway.telekom.at (EHLO localhost) [178.191.249.121] by mail.gmx.net (mp045) with SMTP; 11 Dec 2010 16:25:07 +0100 X-Authenticated: #54312696 X-Provags-ID: V01U2FsdGVkX18UwMQvDnQUYC1txqQG9v2C1C3jMxrJHQgEa5Vk8g pW1Y+wv0BeYp/E X-Mailer: Mew version 6.3.50 on Emacs 24.0.50.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) X-Y-GMX-Trusted: 0 X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:133606 Archived-At: According to the documentation, set-language-environent acts globally. However, at least for CJK documents, it would be very helpful if this could be controlled on a per-buffer basis[1]. For example, on my GNU/Linux box with latin-1 as the default langauge environment, while editing some Japanese text, I see the katakana glyphs from the `simsun' font which look particularly ugly. Assuming that I edit a Chinese text in parallel, a Japanese font from a Japanese language environment would miss most of the Chinese characters, causing fallback character substitution which looks ugly again... Werner [1] An extension of this would be enriched text which supports multiple language environments within a buffer.