Thursday, February 21, 2002 9:20 AM
Sebastian Rahtz wrote,

> yes, its to do with fonts. The Unicode support per se is fine,
> its just that lots of positions are not mapped to a font character

They should be on NT, but Win32 emacs seems to not to use "wide" calls for
console I/O. So anything that can't be code-paged mapped to the system
default locale produces blanks or garbage. I assume Christian's response
refers to Linux, where recent distros when running Unicode-aware apps in a
local X Window should be OK, especially if tru-type support is enabled and
MS Arial Unicode or such like is installed. But where. eg. yudit seems to
get whatever glyphs it needs for any utf-8 encoded characters (within the
BMP at least) emacs doesn't seem at all happy once you stray off the beaten
character track.

Incidentally, a small reward (e.g. a promise from me not to post for a whole
month) to anyone who can tell me how to fire up the Japanese IME on a
Mandrake 8.1 installation (and yes, that is TEI related).

Michael
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