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1 -*-mode: text; coding: latin-1;-*-
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2
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3 Problems, fixmes and other issues in the emacs-unicode branch
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4 -------------------------------------------------------------
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5
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6 Notes by fx to record various things of variable importance. handa
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7 needs to check them -- don't take too seriously, especially with
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8 regard to completeness.
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9
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10 _Do take seriously that you don't want this branch unless you're
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11 actually working on it; you risk your data by actually using it._ If
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12 you just want to edit Unicode and/or unify iso-8859 et al, see the
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13 existing support and the extra stuff at
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14 <URL:ftp://dlpx1.dl.ac.uk/fx/emacs/Mule>, mostly now in the CVS trunk.
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15 (Editing support is mostly orthogonal to the internal representation.)
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16
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17 * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters, which has
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18 undesirable effects. E.g.:
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19 (multibyte-string-p (let ((s "x")) (aset s 0 ?£) s)) => nil
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20 (multibyte-string-p (concat [?£])) => nil
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21 (text-char-description ?£) => "M-#"
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22
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23 These examples are all fixed by the change of 2002-10-14, but
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24 there still exist questionalble SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P in the
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25 code (keymap.c and print.c).
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26
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27 * Rationalize character syntax and its relationship to the Unicode
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28 database. (Applies mainly to symbol an punctuation syntax.)
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29
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30 * Fontset handling and customization needs work. We want to relate
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31 fonts to scripts, probably based on the Unicode blocks. The
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32 presence of small-repertoire 10646-encoded fonts in XFree 4 is a
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33 pain, not currently worked round.
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34
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35 With the change on 2002-07-26, multiple fonts can be
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36 specified in a fontset for a specific range of characters.
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37 Each range can also be specified by script. Before using
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38 ISO10646 fonts, Emacs checks their repertories to avoid such
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39 fonts that don't have a glyph for a specific character.
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40
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41 fx has worked on fontset customization, but was stymied by
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42 basic problems with the way the default face is dealt with
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43 (and something else, I think). This needs revisiting.
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44
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45 * Work is also needed on charset and coding system priorities.
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46
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47 * The relevant bits of latin1-disp.el need porting (and probably
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48 re-naming/updating). See also cyril-util.el.
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49
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50 * Quail files need more work now the encoding is largely irrelevant.
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51
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52 * What to do with the old coding categories stuff?
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53
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54 * The preferred-coding-system property of charsets should probably be
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55 junked unless it can be made more useful now.
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56
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57 * find-multibyte-characters needs looking at.
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58
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59 * Implement Korean cp949/UHC, BIG5-HKSCS and any other important missing
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60 charsets.
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61
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62 * Lazy-load tables for unify-charset somehow?
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63
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64 Actually, Emacs clear out all charset maps and unify-map just
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65 before dumping, and their are loaded again on demand the
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66 dumped emacs. But, those maps (char tables) generated while
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67 temacs is running can't be get rid of from the dumped emacs.
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68
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69 * Translation tables for {en,de}code currently aren't supported.
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70
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71 This should be fixed by the changes of 2002-10-14.
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72
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73 * Defining CCL coding systems currently doesn't work.
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74
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75 This should be fixed by the changes of 2003-01-30.
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76
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77 * iso-2022 charsets get unified on i/o.
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78
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79 With the change on 2003-01-06, decoding routines put `charset'
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80 property to decoded text, and iso-2022 encoder pay attention
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81 to it. Thus, for instance, reading and writing by
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82 iso-2022-7bit preserve the original designation sequences.
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83 The property name `preferred-charset' may be better?
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84
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85 We may have to utilize this property to decide a font.
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86
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87 * Revisit locale processing: look at treating the language and
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88 charset parts separately. (Language should affect things like
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89 speling and calendar, but that's not a Unicode issue.)
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90
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91 * Handle Unicode combining characters usefully, e.g. diacritics, and
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92 handle more scripts specifically (à la Devanagari). There are
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93 issues with canonicalization.
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94
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95 * Bidi is a separate issue with no support currently.
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96
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97 * We need tabular input methods, e.g. for maths symbols. (Not
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98 specific to Unicode.)
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99
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100 * Need multibyte text in menus, e.g. for the above. (Not specific to
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101 Unicode -- see Emacs etc/TODO, but now mostly works with gtk.)
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102
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103 * There's currently no support for Unicode normalization.
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104
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105 * Populate char-width-table correctly for Unicode chanaracters and
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106 worry about what happens when double-width charsets covering
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107 non-CJK characters are unified.
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108
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109 * Emacs 20/21 .elc files are currently not loadable. It may or may
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110 not be possible to do this properly.
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111
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112 With the change on 2002-07-24, elc files generated by Emacs
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113 20.3 and later are correctly loaded (including those
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114 containing multibyte characters and compressed). But, elc
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115 files generated by 20.2 and the primer are still not loadable.
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116 Is it really worth working on it?
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117
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118 * Rmail won't work with non-ASCII text. Encoding issues for Babyl
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119 files need sorting out, but rms says Babyl will go before this is
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120 released.
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121
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122 * Gnus still needs some attention, and we need to get changes
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123 accepted by Gnus maintainers...
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124
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125 * There are type errors lurking, e.g. in
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126 Fcheck_coding_systems_region. Define ENABLE_CHECKING to find them.
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127
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128 * You can grep the code for lots of fixmes.
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129
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130 * Old auto-save files, and similar files, such as Gnus drafts,
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131 containing non-ASCII characters probably won't be re-read correctly.
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133
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135 New font handling mechanism with font backend method
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136 ----------------------------------------------------
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137
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138 This branch now contains new codes for handling fonts by multiple font
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139 backends. The old font handling codes still exist completely parallel
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140 to the new codes, and the new codes are used only when you configure
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141 Emacs with the argument "--enable-font-backend" and run Emacs with the
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142 same argument.
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143
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144 The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks
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145 existing of libraries freetype and fontconfig. If they are both
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146 available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h.
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147 In that case, the exiting of Xft library is checked too.
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148
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149 The new files are:
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150 font.c -- main font handling code.
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151 xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts.
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152 ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts.
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153 xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts.
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154 ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X not using Xft for FreeType fonts.
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155
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156 So we already have codes for X. For the other systems (win32 and mac),
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157 it seems that we need these files:
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158 bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts.
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159 w32font.c -- font driver on win32 using Windows native fonts.
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160 w32bdffont.c -- font-driver on win32 using BDF fonts.
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161 atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts.
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162
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163 It may be interesting if Emacs supports frame buffer directly and have
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164 these font driver.
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165 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.
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166 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts.
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168 Several other files have "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND ... #endif" at the
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169 place where changed for this new font codes.
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