Re: "Outer world" encoding for non-Latin1 language environments

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Anton Zinoviev <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 6 Mar 2002 20:27:44 +0200
> 
> This is a general question about what Cyrillic language environments
> Emacs should have.  Please give a suggestion.  This is the current
> situation about locales and languages:

Thanks for the status report; it sounds like a lot has to be done.

> be in mule-cmd.el maps to language environment "Belarussian" (the right
> spelling is Belarusian, not Belarussian).  There is no such language
> environment in Emacs.  The locale be_BY is for CP1251 but Emacs doesn't 
> support CP1251 in cyrillic.el.  I can make the necessary changes about
> that but AFAIK Dave Love does something similar and I'd better contact
> him.
> 
> Acording to Alexander Mikhailian (the author of "Belarusian-HOWTO") ISO
> 8859-5 is better supported than CP1251 and thats why Emacs should
> support also Belarusian+ISO-8859-5.  I guess this means two languages
> environments for Belarusian: Belarusian-CP1251 and Belarusian-ISO?
> 
> bg in mule-cmd.el maps to language environment "Bulgarian" which also
> doesn't exist.  The locale bg_BG is for CP1251.  Bulgarian GNU/Linux
> users have always used CP1251, even before XFree4.0.2 (the first version
> that supports this encoding).  Two completely different keyboard layouts
> are used in Bulgaria.  This has been discussed already
> <http://mail.gnu.org/pipermail/bug-gnu-emacs/2002-January/009497.html> I
> think it is better to have two language environments Bulgarian-BDS and
> Bulgarian-phonetic.

I, too, remember that Dave was discussing these issues, so I'll leave
it to him to comment on this.

> mk (Macedonian) in mule-cmd.el maps to "Latin-5".  The locale mk_MK is
> for ISO 8859-5. The most closest language environment is "Cyrillic-ISO",
> but it uses Russian keyboard.  If you agree I will make language
> environment for Macedonian, or else that will be "Cyrillic-ISO".

Adding the Macedonian environment sounds like a better idea.  Thanks.

> ru in mule-cmd.el maps to "Latin-5".  That definitely should be
> "Cyrillic-ISO".

Yes, agreed.

> tg (Tadjik) in mule-cmd.el maps to "Cyrillic-KOI8-T".  There is no such
> language environment in Emacs, but I can make it.  KOI8-T has to be
> added in cyrillic.el.
> 
> uk (Ukrainian) maps to language environment "Ukrainian".  There is no
> such environment in Emacs, but I can make it.  KOI8-U has to be added in
> cyrillic.el.

Please do add these two environments.

> > Is it possible that v21.1 that worked for you was compiled with XIM,
> > whereas the CVS version is not, or vice versa?  For XIM, the
> > locale-coding-system should be set correctly, or else non-ASCII input
> > will not DTRT.  Perhaps the same bug in mule-cmds.el that you
> > mentioned also affects this issue, as it sets the wrong
> > locale-coding-system given the value of LANG and LC_* environment
> > variables?
> 
> There are no problems in text-mode.

Hmm... not sure how is this relevant to the issue.  Are you saying
that Emacs beeps in some modes, but not in others?