From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: kai.grossjohann@gmx.net (=?iso-8859-1?q?Kai_Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chinese characters support Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 18:27:28 +0200 Organization: University of Duisburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: <84r871ijdb.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> References: <84el36a9ly.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> <84of287xce.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052930041 27722 80.91.224.249 (14 May 2003 16:34:01 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 16:34:01 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed May 14 18:33:59 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19FzAT-0006zp-00 for ; Wed, 14 May 2003 18:31:49 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Fz9j-0008Rl-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 14 May 2003 12:31:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!headwall.stanford.edu!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!p508771f8.dip.t-dialin.NET!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 19 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: p508771f8.dip.t-dialin.net (80.135.113.248) Original-X-Trace: fu-berlin.de 1052929651 24313031 80.135.113.248 (16 [73968]) Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:ydvGtq7BMVM6vMJLoOvz+oVJn2I= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113229 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:9724 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9724 Lee Sau Dan writes: > If you want to test UTF-8 (Why not UTF-16? People who really use > computers for Far East languages (CJK) would have to waste 50% disk > space if they use UTF-8 to store their text files. UTF-16 is more > space efficient.), do suggest including a UTF-8 test file. (Add a > line in HELLO to instruct anyone how to open the UTF-8 test file, > favourably with hot-key bindings.) And why stop there? Also have > UTF-16 and UTF-7 test files. UTF-8 is simply NOT the magic panacea. > It sucks when you have a file full of Chinese characters, for > instance. The 3-byte per Chinese character "feature" of UTF-8 sucks. Why not include UTF-8 characters in the HELLO file? I gather that iso-2022 is general enough to also allow using UTF-8 as one of the encodings it supports. But I'm not an expert. -- This line is not blank.