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Mention that mule-unicode-* charsets aren't unified with the others.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sun, 10 Jun 2001 10:13:08 +0000
parents 7bb9866ab270
children fa8e496e2af1
files etc/NEWS etc/PROBLEMS
diffstat 2 files changed, 24 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Jun 10 08:45:41 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sun Jun 10 10:13:08 2001 +0000
@@ -2567,9 +2567,16 @@
 introduced for Unicode characters in the range U+0100..U+24FF,
 U+2500..U+33FF, U+E000..U+FFFF respectively.
 
-** The new coding system `mule-utf-8' has been added.  It provides
-limited support for decoding/encoding UTF-8 text.  For details, please
-see the documentation string of this coding system.
+Note that the character sets are not yet unified in Emacs, so
+characters which belong to charsets such as Latin-2, Greek, Hebrew,
+etc. and the same characters in the `mule-unicode-*' charsets are
+different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned.  For example, text
+which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be
+encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system.
+
+** The new coding system `mule-utf-8' has been added.
+It provides limited support for decoding/encoding UTF-8 text.  For
+details, please see the documentation string of this coding system.
 
 ** The new character sets `japanese-jisx0213-1' and
 `japanese-jisx0213-2' have been introduced for the new Japanese
--- a/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Jun 10 08:45:41 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/PROBLEMS	Sun Jun 10 10:13:08 2001 +0000
@@ -668,6 +668,20 @@
   Specifying a different independent variable name will affect the
   resulting formula: @kbd{a F 1 k RET} produces @kbd{3 + 2 k}.
 
+* Unicode characters are not unified with other Mule charsets.
+
+As of v21.1, Emacs charsets are still not unified.  This means that
+characters which belong to charsets such as Latin-2, Greek, Hebrew,
+etc. and the same characters in the `mule-unicode-*' charsets are
+different characters, as far as Emacs is concerned.  For example, text
+which includes Unicode characters from the Latin-2 locale cannot be
+encoded by Emacs with ISO 8859-2 coding system; and if you yank Greek
+text from a buffer whose buffer-file-coding-system is greek-iso-8bit
+into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
+buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.
+
+To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.
+
 * The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.
 
 This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free