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author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Thu, 04 Sep 2003 17:18:48 +0000
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356 ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window 356 ** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
357 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are 357 now look at the character after point. If a face or faces are
358 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those 358 specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
359 faces. 359 faces.
360 360
361 ** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Windows-1251, Tajik, 361 ** New language environments: French, Ukrainian, Tajik,
362 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6, 362 Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8, Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-6,
363 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian, 363 Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian, Swedish, Slovenian, Croatian, Georgian,
364 Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW. (Set up 364 Italian, Russian, Malayalam, Tamil, Russian, Chinese-EUC-TW. (Set up
365 automatically according to the locale.) 365 automatically according to the locale.)
366 366
384 Big 5 is then converted to CNS. 384 Big 5 is then converted to CNS.
385 385
386 --- 386 ---
387 ** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages' 387 ** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
388 library. These include complete versions of most of those in 388 library. These include complete versions of most of those in
389 codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings. 389 codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings. `codepage-setup' is obsolete,
390 except for MS-DOS -- its definitions of the coding systems were mostly
391 incomplete. windows-1252 and windows-1251 are preloaded since the
392 former is so common and the latter is used by GNU locales.
390 393
391 ** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced. 394 ** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
392 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences (mostly representing CJK 395 By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences (mostly representing CJK
393 characters) are simply composed into single quasi-characters. User 396 characters) are simply composed into single quasi-characters. User
394 option `utf-translate-cjk' arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK 397 option `utf-translate-cjk' arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK