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Re: [cjk] I think I got the full fix
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Werner LEMBERG |
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Re: [cjk] I think I got the full fix |
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Mon, 19 Dec 2016 07:50:56 +0100 (CET) |
> If you want my money, I think it was mainly these two -
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> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25&id=9f89ea1f84dbf708228ced0202774b36f30f2b01
> Remove charset map files from repository, generate in first bootstrap
> http://git.savannah.gnu.org/cgit/emacs.git/commit/?h=emacs-25&id=49fa1919e9be863f22ec8042704bf3436d0ec26d
> * admin/charsets/glibc/: New directory, imported from glibc 2.21.
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> and the changes surrounding or after these two which broke big5
> usage - I think these two commit changes the precise meaning of
> "chinese-big5-1" and "chinese-big5-2" .
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> The division of -1 vs -2 is apparently because (older?) emacs's
> encoding is limited to about 9000 characters, and somewhat
> artificial.
Yes, some time ago everything within Emacs was converted to Unicode,
using generic mapping tables for non-Unicode encodings. Having
`chinese-big5-{1,2}' *is* ugly, and having a simple `big5' is much
more convenient.
Werner