From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: jidanni@jidanni.org
Cc: 6866-done@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8
Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 20:37:30 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83fwyesbl1.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87fwyen0ch.fsf@jidanni.org>
> From: jidanni@jidanni.org
> Date: Mon, 16 Aug 2010 21:39:10 +0800
> Cc: 6866@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> Well anyway, for our locale me and my friends all use zh_TW.UTF-8 and
> stopped using zh_TW.big5 years ago. So at least it looks very dumb there
> in mule-cmds.el that the zh_CN people can use UTF-8, but the HK and TW
> are locked in the dark ages:
>
> ("zh_HK" . "Chinese-Big5")
> ("zh_TW" . "Chinese-Big5")
> ("zh_CN.UTF-8" . "Chinese-GBK")
> ("zh_CN" . "Chinese-GB")
Are you sure you understand what this data base is used for in Emacs?
The function within mule-cmds.el which uses this data has this
comment:
;; locale-language-names specify both lang-env and coding.
;; But, what specified in locale-preferred-coding-systems
;; has higher priority.
Thus, if you specify UTF-8 as the preferred encoding (e.g., via
LC_ALL), it overrules the Big5 default.
> The only big5 thing I apparently sometimes still use is
> $ GET http://jidanni.org/comp/configuration/.emacs | grep -i b5
> (setq default-input-method 'chinese-py-punct-b5))));no 'utf' ones
You are confused: an input method can produce Big5 characters, but
that won't prevent Emacs from encoding them in UTF-8 if that's your
preference.
I'm closing this bug.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-16 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-16 11:09 bug#6866: mule-cmds.el just _assumes_ all of Taiwan uses Big5 and not UTF-8 jidanni
2010-08-16 12:22 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-08-16 12:23 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 12:58 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 13:17 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 13:39 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 14:07 ` Jason Rumney
2010-08-16 16:26 ` Werner LEMBERG
2010-08-16 17:37 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-08-16 15:27 ` jidanni
2010-08-16 17:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
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