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Re: guile can't find a chinese named file


From: Eli Zaretskii
Subject: Re: guile can't find a chinese named file
Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 22:33:22 +0200

> Date: Mon, 27 Feb 2017 20:24:19 +0000 (GMT)
> From: Jan Wedekind <address@hidden>
> cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden
> 
> The encoding support of the Ruby programming language [1] is IMHO pretty 
> good. It can handle different encodings for source code, input/output, 
> string variables, and regular expressions. UTF-8 is the preferred encoding 
> but other encodings are required. E.g. Ruby is used a lot in Japan and 
> there are many "Kanji" which are currently not covered by UTF-8.

Emacs solves the latter problem as well, by using codepoints beyond
the end of the Unicode range.  (Don't forget that the Emacs m17n
features were designed and implemented by people who came from Japan.)
The advantage of the Emacs solution is that the internal
representation is still (a superset of) UTF-8, even though the byte
sequences for these codepoints could be longer than the maximum of the
standard UTF-8.



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