Unicode?

Unicode?

Posted Nov 2, 2006 10:28 UTC (Thu) by mmarkov (guest, #4978)
Parent article: Pre-testing Emacs 22

How well does it support Unicode? I have been a XEmacs user for quite a while but XEmacs Unicode support is still incomplete/in-development/etc. If the most recent Emacs supports Unicode completely, I may be tempted to switch.

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Unicode?

Posted Nov 2, 2006 13:40 UTC (Thu) by nix (subscriber, #2304) [Link]

Unicode support works quite well in XEmacs-21.5, which is now stabilizing and perfectly usable for day-to-day work (just don't turn on --enable-newgc yet, it's got a big leak in it).

Unicode?

Posted Nov 2, 2006 19:22 UTC (Thu) by liljencrantz (guest, #28458) [Link]

I am by no means an advanced Unicode (or emacs) user, but I've had no problems with UTF-8 in emacs 21. It's easy to convert a file to a different character set, copy-and-paste between buffers with different character sets work, and emacs shouts at me if I try to save a file in a character set that doesn't have mappings for all the characters in the buffer, etc.

The only major annoyance I've found is that double wide Unicode characters, e.g. Kanji, don't always work properly when running emacs in terminal (non-graphical) mode.