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Re: Chinese characters support
From: |
Kai Großjohann |
Subject: |
Re: Chinese characters support |
Date: |
Sat, 10 May 2003 18:45:34 +0200 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.1002 (Gnus v5.10.2) Emacs/21.3.50 (gnu/linux) |
Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
> Kai wrote:
>
>> Then I typed M-x view-hello-file RET. This showed me some Chinese
>> (and Japanese, and Korean) characters. If you see empty boxes
>> instead of the Chinese characters, then some fonts are missing.
>
> I should be pointed out, nonetheless, that it is a bad idea to cite
> the hello file as an example of international script functionality,
> since it is set in an encoding that virtually no one ever uses (at
> least in the CJK world),
Really? The HELLO file shows characters from a lot of different
encodings, and if used as such, then it is quite useful.
> and it is quite often the case that that file will display fine
> despite the fact that CJK won't work in utf-8
There are known problems with CJK support in UTF-8, but the situation
has improved greatly in the development version of Emacs.
> or native East Asian encodings.
Can you cite examples? I have had no problem with gb2312 and Chinese
characters, at least. Others routinely use Shift-JIS and EUC-JP for
Japanese, I gather.
> Someone should either get rid of that file or save it in a relevant
> encoding.
The file is in a relevant encoding: it's the encoding used by Emacs
internally. (Or rather, an encoding close to the internal encoding.)
This fact has its disadvantages, but it also has advantages.
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/10
- Re: Chinese characters support, Charles Muller, 2003/05/10
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Kai Großjohann <=
- Re: Chinese characters support, Charles Muller, 2003/05/10
- Re: Chinese characters support, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/05/10
- Re: Chinese characters support, Charles Muller, 2003/05/10
- Re: Chinese characters support, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/05/10
- Re: Chinese characters support, Charles Muller, 2003/05/11
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Jason Rumney, 2003/05/12
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Kai Großjohann, 2003/05/12
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/05/13
- Re: Chinese characters support, acmuller, 2003/05/13
- Re: Chinese characters support, Robin Hu, 2003/05/13