Re: More Cyrillic vs UTF-8

[Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com>]

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:

> In article <ilu4r4m357q.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>> (Same configuration as last mail)
>> Cut'n'paste the following string into a new file and save it:
>
>> Горбачев
>
>> UTF-8 isn't shown as an option, and indeed selecting UTF-8 destroys
>> the data.  Doesn't Emacs CVS support the entire Unicode repertoire?
>
>> (The string above, encoded as shift_jis, is, according to od -x:
>> 0000000 4384 8084 8284 7184 7084 8984 7584 7284)
>
> Those characters belongs to the charset japanese-jisx0208,
> and the current Emacs still can't encode them into UTF-8.
>
> How did you get such characters?

That may be interesting by itself.  Go to
http://www.nns.ru/persons/gorbach.html using galeon (or mozilla, I
think).  Cut'n'paste the first word and yank it in Emacs.  It looks as
single-width in galeon, but when yanked into emacs it becomes double
width. Yanking it into xterm or gnome-terminal doesn't change the
string, it looks like single-width.  Save the HTML file and open it in
emacs as a koi8 file (note that emacs doesn't auto detect it as koi8
so you to do that manually), then it is single-width too.

I guess it is the emacs X cut'n'paste code that somehow makes the
string into double width japanese characters.