Re: need help in using a 10646 font with cp1251 text

[Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>]

On Thu, 07 Aug 2003, alkibiades@gmx.de wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@elta.co.il> writes:
> 
>>> From: Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com>
>>> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
>>> Date: Wed, 06 Aug 2003 16:30:21 -0400
>>> 
>>> What can I do to get the 8859-5 charset obtained from the cp1251
>>> encoding displayed as a UCS charset?  I don't want to install a
>>> 8859-5 font.
>>
>> Try using code-pages.el.  You didn't say what version of Emacs you
>> use, so I don't know whether it has code-pages.el bundled.  If not,
>> you can find it either in the Emacs CVS or (I think) on
>> gnu.emacs.sources.
> 
> I just ask out of curiosity: I don't know anything about cyrrillic,
> but from a quick glance it seems that the order of cyrillic
> characters is the same in UCS and in ISO 8859-5. So wouldn't it be
> an option to do some simple transposing for font encoding, like
> [only slightly tested]:
> 
[...] 
> 
> Or is this too kludgy?

It may be OK, but I think code-pages.el is a more generic solution,
and it makes sense to use what comes with Emacs.  Thank you!

Ted