Re: More charset things

[Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>]

Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> > That's not my table.  :-) When MULE supports utf-8, Gnus will
> > support utf-8.
> 
> That is not a nice way of thinking.

I don't see any other way of thinking.  Grokking utf-8 is way outside
the scope of Gnus -- it has to be an Emacs thing.

> MULE is little else than a Japanese version of Emacs, and it appears
> that the Japanese are not interested in Unicode.  So it wasn't
> implemented.  I'm not sure about FSF, but for XEmacs, I know of no
> plans to implement it in the near future.

A partial implementation of utf-mumble was posted recently somewhere
by someone.  (Could I possible get any more vague?)  So I'm Cc'ing
this to the xemacs-mule list.

Anyway, I find that I'm strangely fascinated by the idea of an editor
that allows intermingling of text that uses a variety of character
sets.  I have an urge to jump into the matter, but I'm such a charset
novice that I don't really feel qualified.  (Well, I don't have the
time, either, but that's a minor detail.)

I asked before for a likely book that would introduce me to the basic
concepts, and someone (Stephen Turnbull?) told me, but then I forgot.
(At least, I can't find any books on charset issues in my list of
books to buy.)  Could that someone (or someone else) re-recommend the
book(s) that I should buy to get both an introduction and more
in-depth knowledge about charset issues?

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  larsi@gnus.org * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen