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Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale
From: |
Paul Eggert |
Subject: |
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Dec 2001 15:29:42 -0800 (PST) |
> From: Dave Love <address@hidden>
> Date: 19 Dec 2001 22:11:55 +0000
> >>>>> Markus Kuhn writes:
> > elisp currently has no direct access to
> > the output of the API function nl_langinfo(CODESET)....
>
> I've implemented it, but it's not installed, partly _because_ people
> may not end up with the coding they expect. I haven't yet tried to
> check compatibility properly.
I think it's reasonable to use this kind of approach, but I suggest
deferring it for a major release, not a bugfix release, as it will
take some time to check compatibility.
> I documented other cases from glibc in the code. Apparently they
> aren't all consistent with the source that eggert originally used.
I believe I used Solaris 7; could have been an earlier version.
> From: Dave Love <address@hidden>
> Date: 19 Dec 2001 22:16:15 +0000
>
> >>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:
> > this was disabled previously because stock Emacs 21.1 lacked some
> > user-level features which are required for a decent support of
> > UTF-8 locales.
>
> It lacked _any_ built-in support for utf-8 at the time the locale work
> was done. That's why eggert special-cased it, according to the
> commentary and what I recall in mail.
Yes, that's correct.
> I didn't hear a good reason for maintaining the exclusion in 21.1.
Sorry, I had forgotten about the issue until now, or I would have
suggested removing the exclusion earlier.
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Markus Kuhn, 2001/12/18
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/18
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Tomohiro KUBOTA, 2001/12/18
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/18
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Dave Love, 2001/12/19
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale,
Paul Eggert <=
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/19
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Dave Love, 2001/12/21
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Eli Zaretskii, 2001/12/22
- Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Dave Love, 2001/12/21
Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale, Dave Love, 2001/12/19