Re: UTF-8 character question

[horatio]

On May 12, 1:35 am, David Kastrup <d...@gnu.org> wrote:
> Harald Hanche-Olsen <han...@math.ntnu.no> writes:
> > + hora...@gmail.com:
>
> >> My guess is there's some basic option or package that I'm missing
> >> that will make the problem go away.  Can you (or anyone else) copy
> >> and paste that character into an Emacs buffer?  If it works, can you
> >> think of anything in your setup that I might not have done?  I'll
> >> take a look myself in the meantime.
>
> > I can copy and paste it just fine.  However, you said you're running
> > emacs 22 on windows, right? I am running various versions of emacs 23
> > (the development version) on unix, so I very much doubt that you can
> > learn anything useful from my setup. I don't do anything out of the
> > ordinary with font setup anyway (other than using the Vera Sans Mono
> > font, which will affect only the latin characters). I think some other
> > users of emacs on windows will have to step in.
>
> If he is using Chinese or other CJK stuff a lot, he might want to bite
> the bullet and switch to Emacs 23.
>
> Almost all Emacs implementations that are around use MULE as an internal
> encoding.  Emacs>=23 and XEmacs starting from some 21.5 quite instable
> version use utf-8 as an internal encoding.
>
> The "problem" with MULE is that it represents characters as a
> charset/character pair, and characters from different charsets are
> basically different.  But character sets are coupled with encodings, and
> so some characters exist in quite a number of charsets (like the basic
> accented letters).  This necessitated functions for "charset
> unification" which do a better or worse job depending on what they are
> working with, and how muc code have written for the charsets.
>
> Now Emacs 23 loses this information and keeps around only the Unicode
> codepoint.  That means that you can't represent as much information as
> previously, but usually the information you lose is that which you would
> want to have disregarded, anyway.
>
> --
> David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum

Hey, thanks for the suggestion.  I found a zip online built from the
cvs just a week ago (on the emacsw32 site), and that seems to fix my
unicode problems.

Thanks to everyone for the help.  It seems that the best way to work
with Chinese in emacs is to track down a recent build of Emacs 23.

John