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Re: Remap key to UK pound sign
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zaphod |
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Re: Remap key to UK pound sign |
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Thu, 23 Jun 2005 22:13:32 +0100 |
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Peter Dyballa wrote:
> Recent Carbon Emacsen use QuickDraw from the days of Mac OS 8 or 9
> (last millennium). Then, there were anything but Mac encodings, I think
> Mac OS 9.1 brought some early Unicode support to the Mac. I remember
> that I already had some struggle with fontsets then. Today the
> developers can't test everything unless they're hundred or more. Check
> in CharacterPalette the Unicode blocks, i.e. scripts supported by
> Unicode! The few developers that actually work on display issues can't
> do that. And it's a nice feature allowing me to customize some things
> ... Prêt-à-porter Carbon Emacsen exist too. They have the font or
> fontset and other issues fixed. Why didn't you choose any of these:
> (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aquamacs/Aquamacs-Emacs
> -0.9.2b8.dmg?download + http://aquamacs.org/,
> http://yaced.sourceforge.net/,
> http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/
> carbonemacspackage.html ?
>
> The cheap solution is to use the bitmapped GNU Intl fonts
> -etl-fixed-... I think all European glyphs are contained in them, but
> they look pretty ugly. So Carbon Emacs is something of a hack near the
> end of a dead-end street. There is an effort going on to use ATSUI to
> 'render' text in Emacs. I can't see much progress, and Christmas
> (2006?) is far away either.
>
> The best performance is brought to you by Unicode Emacs 23. It runs in
> X11. When using Apple's quartz-wm as proxy for your preferred Window
> Manager you can copy&paste with other Quartz/Aqua based Mac OS X tools.
> Similarly well is GNU Emacs 22 performing in X11, it only needs some
> more advise in fontsets.
'Fraid this is well over my head. I just want an editor that works so that I
can get some work done instead of having to know as much as the Emacs
development team just to get it working :-(
Zaphod
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