Re: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 doesn't work anymore

[Reiner Steib <reinersteib+gmane@imap.cc>]

On Fri, Jan 14 2005, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>> In <v9acrcs7fk.fsf@marauder.physik.uni-ulm.de> Reiner Steib wrote:
>
>> I'd strongly recommend to get rid of mule-ucs in Emacs 21.
>
> But it is essential if a user want to encode Japanese (and
> possibly Chinese, Korean, etc.) text with the released versions
> of Emacs 21 (i.e., 21.3 and earlier).  

Sorry, I wasn't aware of this.  I know that CJK support in Emacs 21.3
is not very good.  As Steinar is from Norway, this is probably not
very important for him, though.

I seem to remember that Mule-UCS has some problem with Emacs 21.

> Try the following without Mule-UCS.
>
> (let ((str (string (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 36 34))))
>   (list str
> 	(decode-coding-string
> 	 (encode-coding-string str 'utf-8)
> 	 'utf-8)))

,----
| *** Welcome to IELM ***  Type (describe-mode) for help.
| ELISP> (let ((str (string (make-char 'japanese-jisx0208 36 34))))
| 	 (list str
| 	(decode-coding-string
| 	 (encode-coding-string str 'utf-8)
| 	 'utf-8)))
| ("あ" "�")
| 
| ELISP> emacs-version
| "21.3.1"
| ELISP> 
`----

Okay, it should have been the same character, I guess, but it isn't:

,----
|   character: あ (0151042, 53794, 0xd222)
|     charset: japanese-jisx0208 (JISX0208.1983/1990 Japanese Kanji: ISO-IR-87)
|  code point: 36 34
|      syntax: word
|    category: H:Japanese Hiragana characters of 2-byte character sets  
| 	     j:Japanese  
| 	     |:While filling, we can break a line at this character.  
| buffer code: 0x92 0xA4 0xA2
|   file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-9
|        font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-140-JISX0208.1983-0
`----

,----
|   character: � (01175275, 326333, 0x4fabd)
|     charset: mule-unicode-e000-ffff
| 	     (Unicode characters of the range U+E000..U+FFFF.)
|  code point: 117 61
|      syntax: word
|    category:
| buffer code: 0x9C 0xF3 0xF5 0xBD
|   file code: not encodable by coding system iso-latin-9
|        font: -Misc-Fixed-Medium-R-Normal--14-130-75-75-C-70-ISO10646-1
`----

Bye, Reiner.
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