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Re: w32 emacs Arabic


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: w32 emacs Arabic
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2005 23:10:14 +0000
User-agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (windows-nt)

"B. T. Raven" <ecinmn@peoplepc.com> writes:

> What is the relation between codepages in cp*.nls files and their
> definitions in emacs?

I initially interpreted this only in the context of Arabic, but I see
on re-reading it is an independant question.

The codepage definitions in Emacs allow Emacs to convert to/from its
internal encoding to Windows and DOS codepages.

The cp*.nls files in your SYSTEM directory are what Windows uses to
convert to/from its internal encoding (a Unicode variant) and those
codepages.

Emacs depends on the nls files only for display on Windows, and
really only for historical reasons, since Emacs' Unicode support is
probably good enough now (in CVS) to convert directly to Unicode
without going via the Windows API MultiByteToWideChar() function.



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