From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David S Goldberg Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Displaying Chinese text in 20.7 vs 21.3? Date: Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:01:18 -0400 Organization: The Mitre Corp., Bedford, MA. Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1054731956 7647 80.91.224.249 (4 Jun 2003 13:05:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:05:56 +0000 (UTC) Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+gnu-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Jun 04 15:05:54 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 19NXxi-0001z4-00 for ; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 15:05:54 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.20) id 19NXxQ-00026G-E7 for gnu-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Jun 2003 09:05:36 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!cyclone.bc.net!newspump.monmouth.com!newspeer.monmouth.com!newsfeed!newstransit.mitre.org!news.mitre.org!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 47 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: blackbird.mitre.org Original-X-Trace: newslocal.mitre.org 1054731679 24407 129.83.3.34 (4 Jun 2003 13:01:19 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: news@mitre.org Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Jun 2003 13:01:19 +0000 (UTC) Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.1003 (Gnus v5.10.3) XEmacs/21.4 (Portable Code, cygwin32) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0Re6EnqLqgREYyw6Kec5zBLO4tk= Original-Xref: shelby.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:114091 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:10585 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:10585 >>>>> On Tue, 03 Jun 2003 21:17:37 +0300, "Eli Zaretskii" said: >> From: David S Goldberg >> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help >> Date: Tue, 03 Jun 2003 13:14:38 -0400 >> >> The error is: >> >> error: "There's no room for a new private charset unicode-b" > Search the etc/PROBLEMS file for an entry named "The `oc-unicode' > package doesn't work with Emacs 21." Well that clears that up :-) >> I'm hoping someone can tell us how to correctly view Chinese text >> under Emacs 21.3. > How is the file with Chinese text encoded? No idea. I've forwarded these two messages to the users. I'm hoping one of them will jump in since I'm not enjoying the middle man role. >>>>> On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 08:16:59 +0000, Robin Hu said: >>>>> "David" == David S Goldberg writes: David> Last week I upgraded our installation of Emacs from 20.7 to David> 21.3. I'm now hearing from some of my users that the code David> they used to display Chinese text in 20.7 no longer works. David> When they run this bit of code (typically out of .emacs) they David> now get an error. > Are you using mule-ucs package? You may need a patch for Emacs > 21.3. Mule-ucs is needed to viewing chinese text, only if your > chinese text is encoded in utf-8 or utf-16. And for this instance, I > recommend you to grab the latest emacs from cvs intead. If this is so then I'll still have build this group a separate installation. Offering up a CVS snapshot to my entire user community is bad mojo. -- Dave Goldberg Associate Department Head, G06A: Advanced Technical Computing Center The Mitre Corporation \ MS K331 \ 202 Burlington Rd. \ Bedford, MA 01730 dsg@mitre.org \ 781-271-3887