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Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what?
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Ilya Zakharevich |
Subject: |
Re: MULE shows gibberish; now what? |
Date: |
Wed, 9 Oct 2002 13:03:56 -0700 |
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Mutt/1.4i |
On Wed, Oct 09, 2002 at 02:20:15PM -0400, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> > So what I see may be a very widespread situation. Emacs can easily
> > detect that the font *is not* a iso8859-5 font (since iso8859-5 has
> > very few characters, and cp1251 has many). At least it could have
> > given a warning...
>
> It could also look at the CHARSET_REGISTRY and CHARSET_ENCODING property
> of the font (rather than assuming it's the same as in the fontname) ?
Good idea.
> BTW, I agree that the fontset management could be made simpler (I think
> it's not just a question of the doc being dense or incomplete).
Given that I cannot deduce what fontsets (all these -0, -1 etc) are
*doing*, it is hard to deduce where what they are doing can be made
simpler. ;-)
Thanks for your help,
Ilya
P.S. Apparently, the configuration of the site cannot be changed
(given that Netscape can break). Thus without a clean fix which
can be put in the site-file Cyrillic is not going to be usable in
Emacs...