Re: [h-e-w] look for help with emacs and chinese GB

[Jason Rumney]

"lee" <address@hidden> writes:

> hi , everyone
> i am graduate school students,and use emacs both in unix and windows ,
> it is a perfect tool ,not just edit  (programs and other ) ,i even use it as
> file maganement and  email tool,
> there is only one pity that i can not handle chinese GB with it (and what a
> pity!!!),yes emacs 21.1 can display chinese ,but always with erros especialy
> at the begining or end of one line,

I have never heard of this bug. Please report it in more detail, using
M-x report-emacs-bug (or the "Send Bug Report" entry in the "Help" menu).

>it is also a trouble that i can not open
> files with chinese names.
> anyone any ideas?

The file-name problem can be solved by telling Emacs that your
filesystem uses GB2312 encoding.

On unix systems, and in future versions on Windows, this is done by
setting locale-coding-system to 'gb2312, which should be automatically
set if you are running on a Chinese version of the OS.

On Windows in Emacs-21.1, you need to use the function
set-w32-system-coding-system.


There is also a known bug in 21.1 on Windows that it picks up the
vertical fonts by default on Chinese and Japanese versions of Windows.
You can work around this by defining a fontset (as in the FAQ) and
using that.

-- 
Jason Rumney