From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/37492 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Florian Weimer Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: Gnus coming with Emacs 21pre-release: iso-8859-{1,15} Date: Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:44:53 +0200 Message-ID: <87itg37jh6.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> References: <87vgk3q13k.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <87hevnagqo.fsf@deneb.enyo.de> <4634-Sat04Aug2001210229+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035172898 14197 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:01:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:01:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE, emacs-pretest-bug@gnu.org, ding@gnus.org Return-Path: Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 20996 invoked from network); 4 Aug 2001 18:26:39 -0000 Original-Received: from mail.s.netic.de (HELO mail.netic.de) (212.9.160.11) by gnus.org with SMTP; 4 Aug 2001 18:26:39 -0000 Original-Received: by mail.netic.de (Smail3.2.0.111/mail.s.netic.de) via LF.net GmbH Internet Services via remoteip 212.9.163.36 via remotehost mail.enyo.de with esmtp for mail.gnus.org id m15T68B-001X1oC; Sat, 4 Aug 2001 20:26:35 +0200 (CEST) Original-Received: from [192.168.1.2] (helo=deneb.enyo.de ident=exim) by mail.enyo.de with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15T67d-00006c-00; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:26:01 +0200 Original-Received: from fw by deneb.enyo.de with local (Exim 3.12 #1) id 15T6Pt-00013O-00; Sat, 04 Aug 2001 20:44:53 +0200 Original-To: Eli Zaretskii In-Reply-To: <4634-Sat04Aug2001210229+0300-eliz@is.elta.co.il> ("Eli Zaretskii"'s message of "Sat, 04 Aug 2001 21:02:30 +0300") User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/20.7 Original-Lines: 19 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37492 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:37492 "Eli Zaretskii" 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).