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author | Dave Love <fx@gnu.org> |
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date | Thu, 01 Mar 2001 18:47:58 +0000 |
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1492 ** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'. | 1492 ** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'. |
1493 Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets | 1493 Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets |
1494 8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). | 1494 8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign). |
1495 GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have | 1495 GNU Intlfonts doesn't support these yet but recent X releases have |
1496 8859-15. See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts. | 1496 8859-15. See etc/INSTALL for information on obtaining extra fonts. |
1497 There are new Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) and Polish slash input | 1497 There are new Leim input methods for Latin-8 and Latin-9 prefix (only) |
1498 methods in Leim. | 1498 and Polish `slash'. |
1499 | 1499 |
1500 +++ | 1500 +++ |
1501 ** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'. | 1501 ** New language environments `Dutch' and `Spanish'. |
1502 These new environments mainly select appropriate translations | 1502 These new environments mainly select appropriate translations |
1503 of the tutorial. | 1503 of the tutorial. |
2131 extra private charsets, there is now only one slot free for a new | 2131 extra private charsets, there is now only one slot free for a new |
2132 dimension-2 private charset. User code which tries to add more than | 2132 dimension-2 private charset. User code which tries to add more than |
2133 one extra will fail unless you rebuild Emacs with some standard | 2133 one extra will fail unless you rebuild Emacs with some standard |
2134 charset(s) removed; that is probably inadvisable because it changes | 2134 charset(s) removed; that is probably inadvisable because it changes |
2135 the emacs-mule encoding. Also, files stored in the emacs-mule | 2135 the emacs-mule encoding. Also, files stored in the emacs-mule |
2136 encoding using an Emacs 20 with additional private charsets defined | 2136 encoding using Emacs 20 with additional private charsets defined will |
2137 will probably not be read correctly by Emacs 21. | 2137 probably not be read correctly by Emacs 21. |
2138 | 2138 |
2139 | 2139 |
2140 * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, | 2140 * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, |
2141 (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) | 2141 (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) |
2142 | 2142 |
2346 the original restriction. Previously, doing this would cause the saved | 2346 the original restriction. Previously, doing this would cause the saved |
2347 restriction to be restored incorrectly. | 2347 restriction to be restored incorrectly. |
2348 | 2348 |
2349 *** The functions `find-charset-region' and `find-charset-string' include | 2349 *** The functions `find-charset-region' and `find-charset-string' include |
2350 `eight-bit-control' and/or `eight-bit-graphic' in the returned list | 2350 `eight-bit-control' and/or `eight-bit-graphic' in the returned list |
2351 when it finds 8-bit characters. Previously, it included `ascii' in a | 2351 when they find 8-bit characters. Previously, they included `ascii' in a |
2352 multibyte buffer and `unknown' in a unibyte buffer. | 2352 multibyte buffer and `unknown' in a unibyte buffer. |
2353 | 2353 |
2354 *** The functions `set-buffer-modified', `string-as-multibyte' and | 2354 *** The functions `set-buffer-modified', `string-as-multibyte' and |
2355 `string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer if it | 2355 `string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer if it |
2356 contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set. | 2356 contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set. |
2445 have been introduced. | 2445 have been introduced. |
2446 | 2446 |
2447 +++ | 2447 +++ |
2448 ** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic' | 2448 ** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic' |
2449 have been introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and | 2449 have been introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and |
2450 0xA0..0xFF respectively. | 2450 0xA0..0xFF respectively. Note that the multibyte representation of |
2451 eight-bit-control is never exposed; this leads to an exception in the | |
2452 emacs-mule coding system, which encodes everything else to the | |
2453 buffer/string internal representation. | |
2451 | 2454 |
2452 +++ | 2455 +++ |
2453 ** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to | 2456 ** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to |
2454 that offset in the file before writing. | 2457 that offset in the file before writing. |
2455 | 2458 |