From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Re: Re: On Windows(R) Emacs =?utf-8?B?wqtzaGVsbMK7?= mode doesn't prints an output. Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:19:49 +0300 Message-ID: <83zjdoueui.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83a95ow3fm.fsf@gnu.org> <8361gcw02y.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1411644027 13657 80.91.229.3 (25 Sep 2014 11:20:27 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 11:20:27 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Sep 25 13:20:21 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1XX75x-0004PA-1E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 13:20:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:39633 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX75w-0001jg-IZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:20:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:46078) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX75f-0001Yw-Us for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:20:09 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX75Z-0004BD-Qu for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:20:03 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout22.012.net.il ([80.179.55.172]:61188) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1XX75Z-0004AI-Jb for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 07:19:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout22.012.net.il by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NCG00K00FCEE900@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:19:50 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout22.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NCG00KTRFH2A520@a-mtaout22.012.net.il> for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Thu, 25 Sep 2014 14:19:50 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.172 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:100143 Archived-At: > Date: Thu, 25 Sep 2014 17:18:22 +0700 > From: Yuri Khan > Cc: "help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org" >=20 > And there was this comment thread[2] in the blog of Michael Kaplan, > the guy who was Microsoft=E2=80=99s i18n expert, stating that the m= ultibyte > string API functions are only supported for (up to double)-byte > encodings. >=20 > [2]: http://www.siao2.com/2006/07/04/656051.aspx#comment-7971 That's true, but you can work around that with wide (a.k.a. "Unicode"= ) APIs, such as WriteConsoleW. Not easy, but its doable; you can find the recipes and code on the Internet. > > the only > > problem with switching the console to that codepage is that the f= onts > > available for it in the console cover only a very small portion o= f the > > BMP, so you don't really get a Unicode-capable console. >=20 > I was about to retort that setting a TrueType font with sufficient > coverage (finding which can be left as an excercise to the reader) > gets you at least Western, Cyrillic, Greek and CJK and possibly som= e > more, but what do I know, compared to a user of a right-to-left > script? I think Western, Greek, and Cyrillic are covered, but CJK aren't, see http://www.microsoft.com/typography/fonts/font.aspx?FMID=3D1262. So = its coverage is mostly limited to European scripts.