annotate README.unicode @ 88750:62636e000934

(define-charset): Change the attribute :parents to :subset or :superset.
author Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
date Wed, 12 Jun 2002 00:15:39 +0000
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1 -*-text-*-
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3 Problems, fixmes and other issues in the emacs-unicode branch
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5 Notes by fx to record a few things. handa needs to check them --
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6 don't take too seriously, especially with regard to completeness.
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8 Do take seriously that you don't want this CVS branch unless you're
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9 actually working on it. If you just want to edit Unicode and/or unify
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10 iso-8859 et al, see the existing support and the extra stuff at
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11 <URL:ftp://dlpx1.dl.ac.uk/fx/emacs/Mule>. Editing support is mostly
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12 orthogonal to the internal representation.
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14 * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters.
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16 * Grok UTF-8 surrogates.
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18 * Rationalize character syntax and its relationship to the Unicode
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19 database. Specifically, the latin-N.el files aren't consistent for
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20 common characters.
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22 * Fontset handling and customization needs work.
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24 * Likewise for charset and coding system priorities.
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26 * The relevant bits of latin1-disp.el need porting (and probably
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27 re-naming/updating). See also cyril-util.el.
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29 * Quail files need work now the encoding is irrelevant. E.g. make
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30 unified Latin pre- and post- methods.
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32 * What to do with the old coding categories stuff?
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34 * Something's wrong with categories, e.g. the result of C-u C-x e on
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35 Lao in HELLO.
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37 * Syntax for symbols &c in characters needs looking at.
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39 * The preferred-coding-system property of charsets should probably be
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40 junked unless it can be made more useful now.
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42 * find-coding-systems-for-charsets needs re-writing.
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44 * find-multibyte-characters needs looking at.
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46 * Implement Korean cp949/UHC and any other important missing
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47 charsets.
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49 * Check up on tcvn and alternativnj.
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51 * Lazy-load tables for unify-charset somehow?
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53 * Should translation tables for {en,de}code and input work now or be
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54 scrapped?
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56 * Defining CCL coding systems currently doesn't work.
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58 * iso-2022 charsets get unified on i/o.
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60 * Revisit locale processing: look at treating the language and
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61 charset parts separately. (Language should affect things like
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62 speling and calendar, but that's not a Unicode issue.)
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64 * Handle Unicode combining characters usefully, e.g. diacritics, and
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65 handle more scripts specifically (á la Devanagari). There are
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66 issues with canonicalization.
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68 * Bidi is a separate issue.
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70 * DTRT with X keysyms. We should get the right unicode for a given
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71 keysym, not decode raw bytes in some ill-defined coding system.
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72 (fx has some data on keysyms v. unicodes.)
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74 * We need tabular input methods, e.g. for maths symbols. (Not
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75 specific to Unicode.)
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77 * Need multibyte text in menus, e.g. for the above. (Not specific to
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78 Unicode.)