From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Question on Mule and Makor2, font display vs char input? Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 17:39:10 GMT Message-ID: References: <87u0r754pw.fsf@access4less.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1101924962 5556 80.91.229.6 (1 Dec 2004 18:16:02 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 1 Dec 2004 18:16:02 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Dec 01 19:15:51 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CZYT3-0000dZ-00 for ; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 18:40:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CZYcY-0000FT-KJ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:50:30 -0500 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!snoopy.risq.qc.ca!charlie.risq.qc.ca!53ab2750!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:QK+QNM0o37eCLExxekIVr16J24k= Original-Lines: 27 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: 132.204.24.84 Original-X-Complaints-To: abuse@umontreal.ca Original-X-Trace: charlie.risq.qc.ca 1101922750 132.204.24.84 (Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:39:10 EST) Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 01 Dec 2004 12:39:10 EST Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:127067 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:22478 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:22478 > I think the way the encoding issue is supposed to be solved here is > for the file not to be utf-8, but instead just plain-text-unix, and UTF-8 *is* plain text. > the buffer was made to look like it was in utf-8. If I understand > X-Symbol right, Hebrew characters would be handled the same way as > math characters are handled by X-Symbol... This part of my reply was unrelated to X-Symbol. X-Symbol is not an answer for Hebrew text. > There's X-Symbol which does just that (tho in a different way). > But I ran into trouble trying to build X-Symbol; it seems to have been > written with XEmacs in mind. It was originally written for XEmacs. It's been ported to Emacs, tho. Maybe you should try and figure out why you couldn't get it to work. > So it occured to me that maybe there was a relatively straightforward way > to do the same thing using Quail. Maybe it can be done easly, but AFAIK nobody's done it. Stefan