Re: More charset things

[Jan Vroonhof <vroonhof@math.ethz.ch>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> It didn't work for me in XEmacs/Mule when I tried it.  I asked about
> it on the mailing list, and noone was able to instruct me how to do it 
> right.  So I concluded that it can't be done.

I think it can be done, but I think most of the language environments
are just plain wrong. For instance even in a "Croatian" language
environment the 'ctext coding system is preferred over iso-8859-2.
Ctext is a good choice for latin-1 based systems as it is "backwards
compatible" with latin-1.

I did some experimenting and I think you should try

(set-language-environment "Croatian")
(set-coding-category-system 'iso-8-designate 'iso-8859-2)

This makes iso-8859-2 the preferred non Japanese coding system. I
think you might even prefer setting the coding system priorities to
avoid all the Japanese ones.

For some reason all the code to do this is commented out. Note that
the FSF versions of the language environments do change the coding
priorities, but they are now handled centrally.
Somehow I have the feeling somebody tried to sync the XEmacs files
with the FSF versions but stopped midway.

Jan