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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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4 -------------------------------------------------------------
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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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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.
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20 * Rationalize character syntax and its relationship to the Unicode
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21 database. Specifically, the latin-N.el files aren't consistent for
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22 common characters (and obviously have redundancies except in
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23 unibyte mode).
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25 * Fontset handling and customization needs work. We want to relate
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26 fonts to scripts, probably based on the Unicode blocks. The
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27 presence of small-repertoire 10646-encoded fonts in XFree 4 is a
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28 pain, not currently worked round.
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30 With the change on 2002-07-26, multiple fonts can be
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31 specified in a fontset for a specific range of characters.
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32 Each range can also be specified by script. Before using
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33 ISO10646 fonts, Emacs checks their repertories to avoid such
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34 fonts that don't have a glyph for a specific character.
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35
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36 * Work is also needed on charset and coding system priorities.
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37
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38 * The relevant bits of latin1-disp.el need porting (and probably
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39 re-naming/updating). See also cyril-util.el.
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41 * Quail files need more work now the encoding is irrelevant.
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42
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43 * What to do with the old coding categories stuff?
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44
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45 * Syntax for symbols &c in characters.el needs looking at.
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46
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47 * The preferred-coding-system property of charsets should probably be
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48 junked unless it can be made more useful now.
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49
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50 * find-coding-systems-for-charsets needs re-writing or removing.
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51
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52 * find-multibyte-characters needs looking at.
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53
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54 * Implement Korean cp949/UHC and any other important missing
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55 charsets.
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57 * Check up on definitions of tcvn and alternativnj.
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59 * Lazy-load tables for unify-charset somehow?
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61 Actually, Emacs clear out all charset maps and unify-map just
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62 before dumping, and their are loaded again on demand the
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63 dumped emacs. But, those maps (char tables) generated while
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64 temacs is running can't be get rid of from the dumped emacs.
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66 * Translation tables for {en,de}code currently aren't supported.
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68 * Defining CCL coding systems currently doesn't work.
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69
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70 * iso-2022 charsets get unified on i/o.
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72 * Revisit locale processing: look at treating the language and
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73 charset parts separately. (Language should affect things like
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74 speling and calendar, but that's not a Unicode issue.)
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75
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76 * Handle Unicode combining characters usefully, e.g. diacritics, and
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77 handle more scripts specifically (à la Devanagari). There are
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78 issues with canonicalization.
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80 * Bidi is a separate issue with no support currently.
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81
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82 * DTRT with X keysyms. We should get the right unicode for a given
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83 keysym, not decode raw bytes in some ill-defined coding system.
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84 (fx has some data on keysyms v. unicodes.)
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85
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86 * We need tabular input methods, e.g. for maths symbols. (Not
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87 specific to Unicode.)
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89 * Need multibyte text in menus, e.g. for the above. (Not specific to
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90 Unicode.)
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92 * Still can't have case pairs which have different byte lengths --
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93 can that be fixed for Turkish, at least?
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95 * There's currently no support for Unicode normalization.
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97 * Populate char-width-table correctly for Unicode chanaracters and
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98 worry about what happens when double-width charsets covering
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99 non-CJK characters are unified.
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101 * Emacs 20/21 .elc files are currently not loadable. It may or may
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102 not be possible to do this properly.
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104 With the change on 2002-07-24, elc files generated by Emacs
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105 20.3 and later are correctly loaded (including those
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106 containing multibyte characters and compressed). But, elc
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107 files generated by 20.2 and the primer are still not loadable.
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108 Is it really worth working on it?
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109
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110 * Encoding issues in babyl files/rmail need sorting out.
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111
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112 * Gnus still needs some attention, and we need to get changes
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113 accepted by Gnus maintainers...
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115 * You can grep the code for lots of fixmes.
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