Emacs 22.1 released [LWN.net]

Emacs 22.1 released

Posted Jun 4, 2007 17:21 UTC (Mon) by andre68 (guest, #45585)
In reply to: Emacs 22.1 released by ajross
Parent article: Emacs 22.1 released

Ack! The main feature I was really looking forward for was support for unicode. What a pity, that it did not make its way into this release. This means another long wait. Currently I've to workaround this by calling iconv before and after the call of emacs which is nasty.

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Emacs 22.1 released

Posted Jun 4, 2007 17:33 UTC (Mon) by ajross (subscriber, #4563) [Link]

To be clear: my understanding is that 22.x *does* support UTF8 locales and encodings. The unicode branch denotes, I think, an internals rework to represent everything as utf8, and therefore simply things.

I'm not an emacs hacker, though, so hopefully others can fill in whatever I missed or got wrong. As I said, I just use it for the pretty fonts. :)

Emacs 22.1 released

Posted Jun 4, 2007 18:00 UTC (Mon) by andre68 (guest, #45585) [Link]

Well, my opinion of utf8-compliant is, that is shows the utf8 characters in the right manner when editing an utf8 document. I just tried emacs-22.1.1 and this is not the case. I need utf8 mainly for editing german umlauts and the euro sign. If I'm wrong, and there is a setting for doing this, I would really be happy. The UNIX file command says "UTF-8 Unicode text" for my files, so it should work if emacs supports utf8 correctly, shouldn't it?

Emacs 22.1 released

Posted Jun 4, 2007 18:24 UTC (Mon) by asamardzic (guest, #27161) [Link]

There are several settings involved here:
- first, you need to select UTF-8 font for Emacs
- then, you need to select UTF-8 as Emacs language environment ("C-x RET l", then "UTF-8")
- then you could load your UTF-8 text file, and you should be able to see UTF-8 glyphs properly
- finally, if you'd like to edit the file, you need to select "input method" ("C-x RET C-\", and then type in your preferred input method)

Of course, all of above could be automated (for example, I'm doing first thing trough my ~/.Xdefaults file, regarding second thing I have (set-language-environment "UTF-8") in my ~/.emacs file, etc.).

German should be fine

Posted Jun 5, 2007 11:34 UTC (Tue) by coriordan (guest, #7544) [Link]

I don't have problems using Emacs 22 for documents with euro symbols or with acute accents over letters. When I open files, the funny characters display fine, and after I edit the files, the accents are still fine. So it is probably something wrong with your distro or Emacs installation.

If you do M-x view-hello-file, you will see what character sets are working. For me, Amharic, Georgian, Hindi, Tamil, and two or three other writing systems don't display correctly, but Arabic, Japanese, Chinese, Thai, Russian, Greek, Hebrew, French, and German ("Grüß Gott") all display fine.

Emacs 22.1 released

Posted Jun 4, 2007 18:52 UTC (Mon) by khim (subscriber, #9252) [Link]

Emacs supported UTF-8 for years. But only for simple scripts. Unicode-2 branch is complete rework of internals and, of course, it includes Xft support so it works much better, but for simple scripts existing Emacs is enough, 22.1 is not needed...