Re: [h-e-w] Displaying Unicode text?

[Peter Davis]

At 06:01 PM 03/27/2002, Jason Rumney wrote:
> Peter Davis <address@hidden> writes:
>
> > How can I get emacs 21.1 on Windows 2000 to display Unicode text as
> > text?  I tried 'apropos unicode' but came up empty.
>
> This is a bit of a vague question. Do you mean UTF-8 encoded text,
> UTF-16 or Microsoft's proprietary version of UTF-16? Have you already
> solved the problem of reading the file in the correct encoding and
> just looking for information about getting the fonts to display, or is
> your problem with reading the file in the first place?

Sorry for the vagueness.  The files I'm trying to read are UTF-16, and in 
emacs, they look like this:

        address@hidden@address@hidden@s^@ address@hidden@s^@ address@hidden@ 
address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden@address@hidden


> If you need more than the currently supported subset of Unicode, or
> encodings other than UTF-8, then you will need to install Mule-UCS.

I guess this is what I need.  Thanks.  I'll look into it.

-pd



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