Mule-on-Windows, full Unicode support XEmacs

[Tsunhin John Wong]

Stephen,
Thank you for the good news!
I'm actually a user of traditional chinese characters and japanese 
characters, if the ability of XEmacs 21.5 is not yet able to write on 
these characters, I'm willing to help!
Also, in the 21.5 release, please include some instructions on how to 
trigger / install these (XP local IME?) Input methods to type in the CJK 
characters!

Regards,

     	Tsunhin

On Fri, 27 Jan 2006, Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:

> Reply-To set to xemacs-beta and ben.  The other lists are basically
> dead.
>
>>>>>> "Tsunhin" == Tsunhin John Wong <JohnW+ at pitt.edu> writes:
>
>    Tsunhin> Hi all XEmacs users on NT/XP, I'm trying to find a way to
>    Tsunhin> work on UNICODE text (inputing CJK characters)
>
> XEmacs 21.5 is moving toward full Unicode support.  The next step is
> to use Unicode as the internal encoding.  (Stalled as the lead
> developer is on vacation, maybe we'll see results in February.)  We
> are currently restricted with respect to modern Chinese character sets
> such as GBK and GB18030; these cannot be supported with the legacy
> (Mule) internal encoding.
>
>    Tsunhin> by XEmacs in an XP box Is there anyway to install the
>    Tsunhin> MULE-UCS packages? and how is the status of MULE-UCS in
>    Tsunhin> recent year?
>
> Mule-UCS has been orphaned, abandoned, unsupported, and unmaintained
> for about 5 years.  Nor does XEmacs 21.4 support Mule well at all;
> third party patches are required.  On the Windows platform you really
> should use XEmacs 21.5, which does pretty much everything that
> Mule-UCS does, although you may need to load some non-default
> character sets.  Up to the current release (21.5.24) it is very
> stable, though there are many rough edges since it is the development
> line.  There is likely to be substantial instability in the near
> future, however, as we replace the legacy internal encoding with
> Unicode.
>
> The emacs-unicode2 branch of GNU Emacs is well-recommended for
> stability and character set support if those are overriding concerns.
> But that branch is of course completely unsupported, currently not
> being developed AFAIK (they're devoting maximum effort to the current
> release) and is basically waiting on the release to be merged to
> mainline, at which point you can probably expect some months of
> instability.  (And as far as I know all emacs-unicode developers are
> Unix-based; I've seen no reports about it on Windows.  It's *probably*
> OK but I suggest asking before you invest effort.)
>
>
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