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Re: Chinese characters support
From: |
Lee Sau Dan |
Subject: |
Re: Chinese characters support |
Date: |
13 May 2003 09:40:15 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.7 |
>>>>> "Charles" == Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
Charles> 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.
Charles> I should be pointed out, nonetheless, that it is a bad
Charles> idea to cite the hello file as an example of
Charles> international script functionality,
Why not? That file really illustrates the international script
functionality.
Charles> since it is set in an encoding that virtually no one ever
Charles> uses (at least in the CJK world),
That's a problem with encoding, not Emacs's international script
functionality. Maybe, you have "conformance to Unicode and national
encodings" in mind when you said "international script functionality".
They're different issues.
Charles> and it is quite often the case that that file will
Charles> display fine despite the fact that CJK won't work in
Charles> utf-8 or native East Asian encodings.
C-x RET c utf-8 C-x s ... does save my Chinese text files in UTF-8.
C-x RET c big5 C-x s ... does save my Chinese text files in BIG5 --
the "native" encoding for traditional Chinese.
And needless to say, I can read files in UTF-8 and big5 using C-x RET
c ... C-x C-f. (For Emacs 20, I need to install an external package
for Unicode encodings: MuleUCS or something like that.)
Charles> Someone should either get rid of that file or save it in
Charles> a relevant encoding.
Since no "native" encoding preserves the details that the emacs-mule
encoding saves, that "showoff" file must be kept in emacs-mule. e.g.
the section "Difference among chinese characters in GB, JIS, KSC,
BIG5" would be impossible with Unicode, GB, JIS, KSC or BIG5. Only
emacs-mule have enough coding space to accomodate all characters from
these encodings and yet not unify them to make them look
non-identical.
--
Lee Sau Dan 李守敦(Big5) ~{@nJX6X~}(HZ)
E-mail: danlee@informatik.uni-freiburg.de
Home page: http://www.informatik.uni-freiburg.de/~danlee
- Re: Chinese characters support, (continued)
- Re: Chinese characters support, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/05/10
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/05/13
- Re: Chinese characters support, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/05/13
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- Re: Chinese characters support, Lee Sau Dan, 2003/05/15
- Re: Chinese characters support, Eli Zaretskii, 2003/05/16
Re: Chinese characters support, Michael Na Li, 2003/05/12
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