Re: emacs 22 release

[Peter Dyballa]

Am 04.10.2005 um 05:57 schrieb Stefan Monnier:

> Have you actually tried that branch and found it to be working
> more smoothly?

Yes. From the start Unicode Emacs 23 handled the switching between 
buffers with different ISO 8859 encodings better. C-h H made an 
improved impression. File names in UTF-8 (as in Mac OS X) appear to be 
file names, they don't look like a cloud of 8 bit control characters. 
And the dates of the files can be from the month of "Mär". UTF-8 output 
from programmes in *Shell* looks right. Printing looks to be even worse 
than in GNU Emacs 22. And Carbon Emacs 23 lacks more than GNU Emacs 22, 
particularly font handling.

> Or are you just assuming that because it says "Unicode" it will 
> necessarily have all problems fixed without even having to do anything 
> about them?

Reading this word made me believe to assume some progress in handling a 
non-7 bit world, being more based on a recent reality. This seems to be 
true, this too still needs many improvements (for example using the 
pre-composed glyphs instead of trying to compose the names from the 
de-composed contents of directory entries). Unicode Emacs 23 is not 
completely finished yet.

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  Pete

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