Re: new Emacs HELLO file??

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:

> David Kastrup <address@hidden> writes:
> > Andreas Schwab <address@hidden> writes:
> >
>>> Chong Yidong <address@hidden> writes:
>>> 
>>>> Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:
>>>> 
>>>>> BTW, I think we should convert HELLO to UTF-8.  Do you see any symbol
>>>>> in HELLO not supported by UTF-8?
>>>> 
>>>> Isn't it currently UTF-8?
>>> 
>>> It's iso-2022-7bit, and converting it to utf-8 would lose the cjk
>>> variants.
> >
> > Since Emacs-23 has utf-8 as its internal encoding, I have my problems to
> > see how they are not lost anyway.

> See the charset properties.

As iso-2022-7bit has designation sequences for each
character set, Emacs can use that information to add proper
`charset' property, and that property infulence the font
selection.

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Kenichi Handa
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