From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what? Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:20:23 +0200 Organization: University of Dortmund, Germany Sender: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: localhost.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1033217180 32733 127.0.0.1 (28 Sep 2002 12:46:20 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 28 Sep 2002 12:46:20 +0000 (UTC) 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 17vGzD-0008Vn-00 for ; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 14:46:19 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10) id 17vGzN-0004F1-00; Sat, 28 Sep 2002 08:46:29 -0400 Original-Path: shelby.stanford.edu!nntp.stanford.edu!newsfeed.stanford.edu!news-spur1.maxwell.syr.edu!news.maxwell.syr.edu!newsfeed.icl.net!newsfeed.fjserv.net!newsfeed.freenet.de!eusc.inter.net!Informatik.Uni-Dortmund.DE!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 30 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de Mail-Copies-To: never User-Agent: Gnus/5.090008 (Oort Gnus v0.08) Emacs/21.3.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Cancel-Lock: sha1:VnbtFSDcoWqTO3GsCYx7IQYGpCU= Original-Xref: nntp.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:105440 Original-To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-admin@gnu.org X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.0.11 Precedence: bulk List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:1985 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.help:1985 Ilya Zakharevich writes: > [A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to > Kai > =?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?= > ], who wrote in article : > >> In my understanding, telling Emacs "use the foo font to display >> gb2312 encoded characters" amounts to pretty much the same thing as >> telling Emacs "the foo font is in gb2312 encoding". > > Well, this is not enough. A font in gb2312 encoding *has* cyrillic > glyphs. Will Emacs use them if they are present? At the moment, the functionality is lacking indeed. There is a file latin1-disp.el which allows you to display some latin-2 characters using their latin-1 equivalents, and vice versa. But I think this doesn't work with other fonts. Note that for Emacs, a Cyrillic character in GB2312 and a Cyrillic character in KOI-R (and so on) are all different characters, even though they might look the same. I don't know how much of this will change in Emacs 22, but at the moment, that's the way it is. And because Emacs considers them to be different characters, Emacs doesn't use glyphs for one character to display another. And latin1-disp.el is the exception from that rule... kai -- ~/.signature is: umop ap!sdn (Frank Nobis)