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1 -*-mode: text; coding: latin-1;-*-
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3 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
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4 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
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5 See the end of the file for license conditions.
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7 Problems, fixmes and other issues for unicode-related issues
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10 Notes by fx to record various things of variable importance. handa
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11 needs to check them -- don't take too seriously, especially with
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12 regard to completeness.
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14 * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters, which has
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15 undesirable effects. E.g.:
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16 (multibyte-string-p (let ((s "x")) (aset s 0 ?£) s)) => nil
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17 (multibyte-string-p (concat [?£])) => nil
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18 (text-char-description ?£) => "M-#"
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20 These examples are all fixed by the change of 2002-10-14, but
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21 there still exist questionalble SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P in the
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22 code (keymap.c and print.c).
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24 * Rationalize character syntax and its relationship to the Unicode
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25 database. (Applies mainly to symbol an punctuation syntax.)
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27 * Fontset handling and customization needs work. We want to relate
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28 fonts to scripts, probably based on the Unicode blocks. The
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29 presence of small-repertoire 10646-encoded fonts in XFree 4 is a
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30 pain, not currently worked round.
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32 With the change on 2002-07-26, multiple fonts can be
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33 specified in a fontset for a specific range of characters.
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34 Each range can also be specified by script. Before using
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35 ISO10646 fonts, Emacs checks their repertories to avoid such
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36 fonts that don't have a glyph for a specific character.
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38 fx has worked on fontset customization, but was stymied by
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39 basic problems with the way the default face is dealt with
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40 (and something else, I think). This needs revisiting.
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42 * Work is also needed on charset and coding system priorities.
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44 * The relevant bits of latin1-disp.el need porting (and probably
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45 re-naming/updating). See also cyril-util.el.
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49 * What to do with the old coding categories stuff?
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51 * The preferred-coding-system property of charsets should probably be
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52 junked unless it can be made more useful now.
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54 * find-multibyte-characters needs looking at.
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56 * Implement Korean cp949/UHC, BIG5-HKSCS and any other important missing
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57 charsets.
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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 This should be fixed by the changes of 2002-10-14.
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70 * Defining CCL coding systems currently doesn't work.
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72 This should be fixed by the changes of 2003-01-30.
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74 * iso-2022 charsets get unified on i/o.
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76 With the change on 2003-01-06, decoding routines put `charset'
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77 property to decoded text, and iso-2022 encoder pay attention
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78 to it. Thus, for instance, reading and writing by
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79 iso-2022-7bit preserve the original designation sequences.
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80 The property name `preferred-charset' may be better?
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82 We may have to utilize this property to decide a font.
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85 charset parts separately. (Language should affect things like
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86 speling and calendar, but that's not a Unicode issue.)
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90 issues with canonicalization.
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94 * We need tabular input methods, e.g. for maths symbols. (Not
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95 specific to Unicode.)
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97 * Need multibyte text in menus, e.g. for the above. (Not specific to
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100 * There's currently no support for Unicode normalization.
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102 * Populate char-width-table correctly for Unicode chanaracters and
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103 worry about what happens when double-width charsets covering
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104 non-CJK characters are unified.
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106 * Emacs 20/21 .elc files are currently not loadable. It may or may
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107 not be possible to do this properly.
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109 With the change on 2002-07-24, elc files generated by Emacs
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110 20.3 and later are correctly loaded (including those
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111 containing multibyte characters and compressed). But, elc
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112 files generated by 20.2 and the primer are still not loadable.
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113 Is it really worth working on it?
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115 * Rmail won't work with non-ASCII text. Encoding issues for Babyl
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116 files need sorting out, but rms says Babyl will go before this is
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117 released.
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119 * Gnus still needs some attention, and we need to get changes
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120 accepted by Gnus maintainers...
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122 * There are type errors lurking, e.g. in
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123 Fcheck_coding_systems_region. Define ENABLE_CHECKING to find them.
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125 * You can grep the code for lots of fixmes.
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127 * Old auto-save files, and similar files, such as Gnus drafts,
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128 containing non-ASCII characters probably won't be re-read correctly.
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132 New font handling mechanism with font backend method
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133 ----------------------------------------------------
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135 Emacs now contains new codes for handling fonts by multiple font
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136 backends. The old font handling codes still exist completely parallel
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137 to the new codes, and the new codes are used only when you configure
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138 Emacs with the argument "--enable-font-backend".
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140 Which font backends to use can be specified by X resource
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141 "FontBackend". For instance, if you want to use Xft fonts only,
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143 Emacs.FontBackend: xft
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145 will work. If this resource is not set, Emacs tries to use all font
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146 backends available on your graphic device.
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148 The configure script, if invoked with "--enable-font-backend", checks
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149 if libraries freetype and fontconfig exist. If they are both
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150 available, macro "USE_FONT_BACKEND" is defined in src/config.h. In
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151 that case, the existing of Xft library is checked too.
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153 The new files are:
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154 font.h -- header providing font-backend related structures
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155 (most important ones are "struct font" and "struct
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156 font_driver"), macros, and etc.
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157 font.c -- main font handling code.
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158 xfont.c -- font-driver on X for X core fonts.
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159 ftfont.c -- generic font-driver for FreeType fonts providing
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160 device-independent methods of struct font_driver.
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161 xftfont.c -- font-driver on X using Xft for FreeType fonts
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162 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
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163 ftxfont.c -- font-driver on X directly using FreeType fonts
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164 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
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165 w32font.c -- font driver on w32 using Windows native fonts,
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166 corresponding to xfont.c
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167
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168 So we already have codes for X. For the other systems (w32 and mac),
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169 it seems that we need these files:
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170 atmfont.c -- font-driver on mac using ATM fonts, corresponding
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171 to xfont.c
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172 As BDF fonts are currently used on w32, we may also implement these:
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173 bdffont.c -- generic font-driver for BDF fonts, corresponding to
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174 ftfont.c
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175 bdfw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 using BDF fonts,
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176 corresponding to ftxfont.c
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177 But, as FreeType already supports BDF fonts, if FreeType and
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178 Fontconfig are also available on w32, what we need may be:
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179 ftw32font.c -- font-driver on w32 directly using FreeType fonts
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180 utilizing methods provided by ftfont.c.
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181
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182 And, for those to work, macterm.c and macfns.c must be changed by the
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183 similar way as xterm.c and xfns.c (the parts "#ifdef USE_FONT_BACKEND"
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184 ... "#endif" should be checked).
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185
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186 It may be interesting if Emacs supports a frame buffer directly and
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187 have these font driver.
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188 ftfbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for FreeType fonts.
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189 bdffbfont.c -- font-driver on FB for BDF fonts.
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190
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191 Note: The fontset related codes are not yet matuared to work well with
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192 the font backend method. So, for instance, even if you start Emacs
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193 as something like this:
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194 % emacs -fn tahoma
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195 Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
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196 In such a case, please try this:
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197
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198 (set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))
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200
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201 This file is part of GNU Emacs.
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202
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203 GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
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204 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
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205 the Free Software Foundation; either version 3, or (at your option)
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206 any later version.
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207
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208 GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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209 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
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210 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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211 GNU General Public License for more details.
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212
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213 You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
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214 along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING. If not, write to the
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215 Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor,
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