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Re: Language environments
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
Re: Language environments |
Date: |
Thu, 29 Nov 2001 10:18:05 +0200 (IST) |
On Wed, 28 Nov 2001, Paul Eggert wrote:
> >From Emacs's point of view I suggest handling all four ISO 639
> abbreviations (Serbo-Croatian (sh), Serbian (sr), Croatian (hr), and
> Bosnian (bs)) with a single Emacs language environment that supports
> both Cyrillic and Latinic well.
How can you have an Emacs language environment that supports both
Cyrillic and Latin scripts? I think you can't.
The problem is that ISO-8859 charsets use conflicting 8-bit codepoints
if you mix more than one in the same document. Emacs currently cannot
save such mixed buffers in anything but emacs-mule, which is useless
outside Emacs, or iso-2022, which is not very useful in Europe.
Decoding files is also a problem: without knowing in advance whether
to favor Latin or Cyrillic, Emacs will err with a high probability.
Users must put "coding:" tags into their files to make this workable.
Changes to stock Emacs code or add-on packages can give you a unified
or Unicode environment where you can use UTF-8 files, which don't have
those problems, but that's not yet part of the official distribution.
Am I missing something?
- Re: Language environments, (continued)
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Karl Eichwalder, 2001/11/19
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/19
- Re: Language environments, Bruno Haible, 2001/11/20
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/21
- Re: Language environments, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/11/22
- Re: Language environments, Bruno Haible, 2001/11/22
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/23
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/28
- Re: Language environments,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- Re: Language environments, Paul Eggert, 2001/11/29
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/30
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/29
- Re: Language environments, Richard Stallman, 2001/11/20
Re: Language environments, Werner LEMBERG, 2001/11/18
Re[1]: Language environments, Eric M. Ludlam, 2001/11/18
Re: Language environments, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/18
Re: Language environments, Kenichi Handa, 2001/11/30