# HG changeset patch # User Miles Bader # Date 1180042285 0 # Node ID 7004567d576d4907b38938a4ce5e562bc792772b # Parent 31beec9ee60089c18324aba2653f7ccb78873dc3 Move NEWS entries for unicode branch into etc/NEWS.unicode Revision: emacs@sv.gnu.org/emacs--unicode--0--patch-209 diff -r 31beec9ee600 -r 7004567d576d etc/NEWS.22 --- a/etc/NEWS.22 Thu May 24 21:31:10 2007 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS.22 Thu May 24 21:31:25 2007 +0000 @@ -14,88 +14,6 @@ You can narrow news to a specific version by calling `view-emacs-news' with a prefix argument or by typing C-u C-h C-n. - -Temporary note: - +++ indicates that the appropriate manual has already been updated. - --- means no change in the manuals is called for. -When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or --- -so we will look at it and add it to the manual. - -Fixme: The notes about Emacs 23 are quite incomplete. - - -* Changes in Emacs 23.1 - -** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. -(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). - -The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now -Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. utf-8-emacs is backwards -compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. The `emacs-mule' -coding system can still read and write data in the old internal -encoding. - -There are still charsets which contain disjoint sets of characters -where this is necessary or useful, especially for various Far Eastern -sets which are problematic with Unicode. - -Since the internal encoding is also used by default for byte-compiled -files -- i.e. the normal coding system for byte-compiled Lisp files is -now utf-8-Emacs -- Lisp containing non-ASCII characters which is -compiled by Emacs 23 can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files -compiled by Emacs 20, 21, or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule -(whether or not they contain multibyte characters), which makes loading -them somewhat slower than Emacs 23-compiled files. Thus it may be worth -recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older -Emacsen. - -** There are assorted new coding systems/aliases -- see -M-x list-coding-systems. - -** New charset implementation with many new charsets. -See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently -as tables of unicodes. - -The dimension of a charset is now 0, 1, 2, or 3, and the size of each -dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. - -Generic characters no longer exist. - -A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of -unicodes for display &c. - -** The following facilities are obsolete: - -Minor modes: unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode - - -* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1 - -map-char-table's behaviour has changed. - -New functions: characterp, max-char, map-charset-chars, -define-charset-alias, primary-charset, set-primary-charset, -unify-charset, clear-charset-maps, charset-priority-list, -set-charset-priority, define-coding-system, -define-coding-system-alias, coding-system-aliases, langinfo, -string-to-multibyte. - -Changed functions: copy-sequence, decode-char, encode-char, -set-fontset-font, new-fontset, modify-syntax-entry, define-charset, -modify-category-entry - -Obsoleted: char-bytes, chars-in-region, set-coding-priority, -char-valid-p - - -* Incompatible Lisp changes - -Deleted functions: make-coding-system, register-char-codings, -coding-system-spec - -** The character codes for characters from the -eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range -128-255. * About external Lisp packages diff -r 31beec9ee600 -r 7004567d576d etc/NEWS.unicode --- /dev/null Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 1970 +0000 +++ b/etc/NEWS.unicode Thu May 24 21:31:25 2007 +0000 @@ -0,0 +1,114 @@ +GNU Emacs NEWS -- history of user-visible changes. + +Copyright (C) 2001, 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007 + Free Software Foundation, Inc. +See the end of the file for license conditions. + +Please send Emacs bug reports to bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org. +If possible, use M-x report-emacs-bug. + +This file is about changes in the Emacs "unicode" branch. + +Fixme: The notes about Emacs 23 are quite incomplete. + + +* Changes in Emacs 23.1 + +** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode. +(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty). + +The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now +Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. utf-8-emacs is backwards +compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. The `emacs-mule' +coding system can still read and write data in the old internal +encoding. + +There are still charsets which contain disjoint sets of characters +where this is necessary or useful, especially for various Far Eastern +sets which are problematic with Unicode. + +Since the internal encoding is also used by default for byte-compiled +files -- i.e. the normal coding system for byte-compiled Lisp files is +now utf-8-Emacs -- Lisp containing non-ASCII characters which is +compiled by Emacs 23 can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files +compiled by Emacs 20, 21, or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule +(whether or not they contain multibyte characters), which makes loading +them somewhat slower than Emacs 23-compiled files. Thus it may be worth +recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older +Emacsen. + +** There are assorted new coding systems/aliases -- see +M-x list-coding-systems. + +** New charset implementation with many new charsets. +See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently +as tables of unicodes. + +The dimension of a charset is now 0, 1, 2, or 3, and the size of each +dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96. + +Generic characters no longer exist. + +A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of +unicodes for display &c. + +** The following facilities are obsolete: + +Minor modes: unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode + + +* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1 + +map-char-table's behaviour has changed. + +New functions: characterp, max-char, map-charset-chars, +define-charset-alias, primary-charset, set-primary-charset, +unify-charset, clear-charset-maps, charset-priority-list, +set-charset-priority, define-coding-system, +define-coding-system-alias, coding-system-aliases, langinfo, +string-to-multibyte. + +Changed functions: copy-sequence, decode-char, encode-char, +set-fontset-font, new-fontset, modify-syntax-entry, define-charset, +modify-category-entry + +Obsoleted: char-bytes, chars-in-region, set-coding-priority, +char-valid-p + + +* Incompatible Lisp changes + +Deleted functions: make-coding-system, register-char-codings, +coding-system-spec + +** The character codes for characters from the +eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range +128-255. + + + +---------------------------------------------------------------------- +This file is part of GNU Emacs. + +GNU Emacs is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify +it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by +the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) +any later version. + +GNU Emacs is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, +but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of +MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. 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