Re: Does Gnu Emacs support UTF-8 for Japanese?

[Ben Bullock]

"Pascal Bourguignon" <spam@mouse-potato.com> wrote in message 
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> "Ben Bullock" <usenet@sljfaq.org> writes:
> > I had a problem with Gnu Emacs apparently not being able to cope with
> > UTF 8 coding. After much frustration the answer I seemed to get is
> > that Gnu Emacs doesn't support UTF 8 for Japanese codes. Is this right
> > or wrong? If right, why? If wrong, what can I do to make it save files
> > in UTF 8?
>
> If so, how comes I can send you this post from emacs, but not from ときお?

I have no idea. I can type in a very simple sentence in Japanese, try to 
save it as utf-8, and get an error message, and insist that I save it as 
euc-jp or other. I looked at Google for what might happen, and the 
impression was that it just didn't support utf-8 properly.

> "Specifications are for the weak and timid!"

I'm feeling weak after this.

Another one: I put the input method editor for Gnome in today, and it 
started trapping ctrl - space, so every time I tried to "set mark", which I 
do about a hundred times without thinking about it, Gnome caught it and 
Emacs didn't realise. Then I did ctrl - w and deleted everything in the file 
over and over. I found I could do it with ctrl - @ but I don't want to do 
it, so then I had to turn Gnome's thing off again.

Also Gnome doesn't talk to Emacs, it seems.