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Problems, fixmes and other issues in the emacs-unicode branch
-------------------------------------------------------------

Notes by fx to record various things of variable importance.  handa
needs to check them -- don't take too seriously, especially with
regard to completeness.

_Do take seriously that you don't want this branch unless you're
actually working on it; you risk your data by actually using it._  If
you just want to edit Unicode and/or unify iso-8859 et al, see the
existing support and the extra stuff at
<URL:ftp://dlpx1.dl.ac.uk/fx/emacs/Mule>, mostly now in the CVS trunk.
(Editing support is mostly orthogonal to the internal representation.)

 * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters, which has
   undesirable effects.  E.g.:
   (multibyte-string-p (let ((s "x")) (aset s 0 ?£) s)) => nil
   (multibyte-string-p (concat [?£])) => nil

New font handling mechanism with font backend method
----------------------------------------------------

This branch now contains new codes for handling fonts by multiple font
backends.  The old font handling codes still exist completely parallel
to the new codes, and the new codes are used only when you configure
Emacs with the argument "--enable-font-backend".

Which font backends to use can be specified by X resource

  % emacs -fn tahoma
Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
In such a case, please try this:

(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))

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                                            -*-mode: text; coding: latin-1;-*-

Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
See the end of the file for license conditions.

Problems, fixmes and other issues for unicode-related issues
-------------------------------------------------------------

Notes by fx to record various things of variable importance.  handa
needs to check them -- don't take too seriously, especially with
regard to completeness.

 * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters, which has
   undesirable effects.  E.g.:
   (multibyte-string-p (let ((s "x")) (aset s 0 ?£) s)) => nil
   (multibyte-string-p (concat [?£])) => nil

New font handling mechanism with font backend method
----------------------------------------------------

Emacs now contains new codes for handling fonts by multiple font
backends.  The old font handling codes still exist completely parallel
to the new codes, and the new codes are used only when you configure
Emacs with the argument "--enable-font-backend".

Which font backends to use can be specified by X resource

  % emacs -fn tahoma
Non-ASCII Latin characters will not be displayed by the font "tahoma".
In such a case, please try this:

(set-fontset-font "fontset-default" 'latin '("tahoma" . "unicode-bmp"))


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