any news for full UTF8 support in 21.5.x

Uwe Brauer oub at mat.ucm.es
Thu Jun 1 13:37:29 EDT 2006


>>>>> "sjt" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen at xemacs.org> writes:

>>>>> "Uwe" == Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> writes:
   Uwe> Around January, I think Stephen T. said, that full UFT8
   Uwe> support would enter the 21.5.x series in a couple of month.

   sjt> Depends on what you mean by "full UTF-8" support.  Aidan just
   sjt> committed a patch that allows XEmacs to not corrupt unknown Unicode
   sjt> characters.  I'm not sure how keyboard input and display are
   sjt> supported for such characters, though.

Well I meant in the _weak_ sense, that Xemacs does not corrupt
Unicode, chars, as it did (see my messages a couple of month ago). I
personally do not need (right now) full UTF-8 support in the _strong_
sense, that is that Xemacs correctly generates such chars.

Uwe 




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