Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>>     +* Encoding some characters as Unicode is rejected by Emacs.
>>     +
>>     +Emacs currently only supports the parts of the BMP whose codepoints
>>     +are in the ranges 0000-33ff and e000-ffff.  If you try to save a file
>>     +containing characters with code points outside this range, Emacs will
>>     +suggest other compatible coding systems.
>
>> That is clearer; it's written in terms of behavior the user sees.
>> I agree with the people who said that the codepoint numbers may not
>> be clear enough.
>
> Perhaps, it is better to mention utf-translate-cjk mode as this. 
>
> * Encoding some characters as Unicode (UTF-8) is rejected by Emacs.
>
> Emacs currently, by default, only supports the parts of the
> BMP whose codepoints are in the ranges 0000-33ff and
> e000-ffff.  This excludes CJK, Yi, Music, and Maths.
>
> If you try to save a file containing characters with code
> points outside this range, Emacs will suggest other
> compatible coding systems.
>
> By turing Utf-Translate-Cjk mode on, many more CJK
> characters are included in the support.

This looks good.

As for utf-translate-cjk, it does sounds like that functionality
should be enabled by default.  Is the only problem that loading them
is slow?  Perhaps it can be loaded lazily?