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Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?
From: |
Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what? |
Date: |
Sun, 29 Sep 2002 20:17:31 +0000 (UTC) |
[A complimentary Cc of this posting was sent to
Kai
=?iso-8859-15?q?Gro=DFjohann?=
<Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE>], who wrote in article
<vaf3crul308.fsf@lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de>:
> > Well, this is not enough. A font in gb2312 encoding *has* cyrillic
> > glyphs. Will Emacs use them if they are present?
>
> At the moment, the functionality is lacking indeed. There is a file
> latin1-disp.el which allows you to display some latin-2 characters
> using their latin-1 equivalents, and vice versa. But I think this
> doesn't work with other fonts.
>
> Note that for Emacs, a Cyrillic character in GB2312 and a Cyrillic
> character in KOI-R (and so on) are all different characters, even
> though they might look the same.
Yes, I know about this incredible MULE design flaw. Well, 10 years
ago the knowledge of internationalization issues was confined to giant
multinational corporations (like IBM); but 5 years ago, thanks to
emergence of Unicode, the understanding of the issues became much more
widespread. It is a pity that RMS was so illiterate in this respect
that he accepted MULE into Emacs...
> I don't know how much of this will
> change in Emacs 22, but at the moment, that's the way it is. And
> because Emacs considers them to be different characters, Emacs
> doesn't use glyphs for one character to display another. And
> latin1-disp.el is the exception from that rule...
Note that your "because" is misplaced. Even if buffer-filling engine
does not consider them the same, the display engine might have
remapped them for display purposes to the same codepoint in the same
font.
Ilya
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, (continued)
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/25
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/25
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Oliver Scholz, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/28
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/28
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?,
Ilya Zakharevich <=
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Jason Rumney, 2002/09/30
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/30
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Jason Rumney, 2002/09/29
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/26
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Ilya Zakharevich, 2002/09/28
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Kai Großjohann, 2002/09/27
- Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?, Oliver Scholz, 2002/09/27