From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Shaddy Baddah Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: More unicode blocks? Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 22:59:59 +0800 Message-ID: <433AAFEF.8070506@msa.hinet.net> References: <43359AB0.1050300@msa.hinet.net> Reply-To: Shaddy.Baddah@msa.hinet.net NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1127920263 11069 80.91.229.2 (28 Sep 2005 15:11:03 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 28 Sep 2005 15:11:03 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Sep 28 17:10:59 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdXY-0006wd-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 17:08:13 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdXY-0002lL-2z for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:08:12 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdVR-0001ke-27 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:06:02 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdVG-0001gl-4P for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:05:51 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1EKdVF-0001f4-Nm for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:05:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [168.95.4.108] (helo=msr8.hinet.net) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1EKdQ7-0005cV-4z for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 11:00:31 -0400 Original-Received: from [61.228.222.210] (61-228-222-210.dynamic.hinet.net [61.228.222.210]) by msr8.hinet.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id XAA18450; Wed, 28 Sep 2005 23:00:13 +0800 (CST) User-Agent: Mozilla Thunderbird 1.0.2 (Windows/20050317) X-Accept-Language: en-us, en Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org In-Reply-To: <43359AB0.1050300@msa.hinet.net> X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:29788 Archived-At: Hi, Shaddy Baddah wrote: > I have no problems displaying and editing these characters under the > big5 coding scheme, so they are obviously well supported by emacs (and > it's internal coding scheme, right?). > > So, what is the impediment, or perhaps rationale, behind the lack of > support for the additional unicode blocks at this stage of Emacs > development? > > Is it simply to do with someone having to implement some type of > character translation tables, or is there/how much more is there to it? Sorry to bump this, but I really am dying to know (I don't want to be forced into using eclipse for my editing of utf-8 encoded traditional chines characters. I'm willing to do the hard labour of mappings to avoid this). TIA, Shaddy P.S: Is the emacs community dwindling, and does that explain the unenthusiastic (well... non-existent) response to my questions? P.S.S: > P.S: please honour my reply-to email field. ^^^