Re: Chinese characters support

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 12:36:28 +0900 (JST)
> Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help
> From: Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com>
> 
> I never said it was useless in general, and have never
> suggested that the HELLO file should be relegated to oblivion. 

Perhaps someone else in this thread did, then.

> Since the HELLO file is used for internal testing by Emacs coders it almost
> always works correctly in any recent Emacs "out of the box." 

The ability to display HELLO depends on the local configuration
(fonts), so it is not guaranteed to work on every platform.

> Since the people who usually make the suggestion to test via the HELLO are
> those who do not regularly use CJK, it seems that they are not aware of this
> discrepancy, and I wanted to point this out. 

Actually, HELLO was created by people who use CJK every day.