From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org,
ding@gnus.org
Subject: Re: Gnus coming with Emacs 21pre-release: iso-8859-{1,15}
Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:44:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87itg37jh6.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4634-Sat04Aug2001210229+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:02:30 +0300")
"Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:
>> > The Emacs 21 mule-unicode coding system groks iso-8859-1 characters,
>> > but not iso-8859-15.
>>
>> Is anybody needed for fixing this?
>
> Yes, you need either (1) install an add-on package such as Mule-UCS;
> or (2) add support for using Unicode tables for encoding and decoding
> Mule charsets into and from UTF-8; or (3) replace the internal
> representation of characters used by Emacs to be based on Unicode.
Is somebody working on this? Which option has been chosen by the
Emacs maintainers?
I think I've got some unusal ideas on how Emacs might approach some
aspects of Unicode (and which aspects cannot be implemented without a
major paradigm shift), and I'd like to share them (and eventually,
some code).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-08-04 18:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-07-27 5:10 Karl Eichwalder
2001-07-27 5:20 ` Karl Eichwalder
2001-07-27 8:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-07-27 18:22 ` Karl Eichwalder
2001-07-27 19:18 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-01 16:27 ` Dave Love
2001-09-01 16:30 ` Dave Love
2001-08-04 15:46 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-04 16:54 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-04 17:15 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-04 17:57 ` Kai Großjohann
2001-08-04 18:02 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-08-04 18:44 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2001-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-01 16:29 ` Dave Love
2001-09-02 11:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-02 11:39 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-04 18:07 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-08-04 19:11 ` Florian Weimer
2001-08-05 7:15 ` Eli Zaretskii
2001-09-01 16:28 ` Dave Love
2001-09-01 16:30 ` Dave Love
2001-09-01 16:26 ` Dave Love
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