From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Lee Sau Dan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Chinese characters support Date: 15 May 2003 10:07:01 +0200 Organization: Rechenzentrum der Universitaet Freiburg, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <84he8292dt.fsf@lucy.is.informatik.uni-duisburg.de> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=cn-big5 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1052988442 14695 80.91.224.249 (15 May 2003 08:47:22 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 15 May 2003 08:47:22 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu May 15 10:47:19 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 19GENs-0003lN-00 for ; Thu, 15 May 2003 10:46:40 +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 19GENH-0001Av-09 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Thu, 15 May 2003 04:46:03 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!logbridge.uoregon.edu!news.stupi.se!news.stupi.se!news.tele.dk!news.tele.dk!small.news.tele.dk!news100.image.dk!feed.news.nacamar.de!newsfeed01.sul.t-online.de!t-online.de!news.belwue.de!news.uni-freiburg.de!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 25 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: savona.informatik.uni-freiburg.de User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:113255 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:9749 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:9749 >>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller writes: Charles> Lee Sau Dan wrote: >> And for XML in Chinese, utf-8 wastes lots of space. To be >> practical, we often use big5 for XML files with Chinese. Charles> That's fine, if all you are doing is Chinese. The Charles> documents in my project include terms from over 15 Charles> languages, including Tibetan, Nepalese, Sanskrit, Pali, Charles> and several European languages. Unicode has codepoints Charles> for these characters, while Big5 (and other Chinese Charles> codesets) do not. The emacs-mule encoding also has code points for these characters. Moreover, it can distinguish big5 characters from JIS characters (see the "Difference among chinese characters in GB, JIS, KSC, BIG5:" section in the HELLO file.), while Unicode (and hence utf-7, utf-8, utf-16, ucs2, ucs4) cannot. -- Lee Sau Dan §õ¦u´°(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ) E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee