changeset 88884:9d76d33fbcff

*** empty log message ***
author Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
date Tue, 23 Jul 2002 19:07:04 +0000
parents 93014ea2ab20
children c636c5e9d6ce
files README.unicode
diffstat 1 files changed, 33 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/README.unicode	Tue Jul 23 02:58:07 2002 +0000
+++ b/README.unicode	Tue Jul 23 19:07:04 2002 +0000
@@ -1,50 +1,54 @@
                                                                    -*-text-*-
 
 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 CVS branch unless you're
-actually working on it; you'd risk your data._  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>.  Editing
-support is mostly orthogonal to the internal representation.
+_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.
-
- * Grok UTF-8 surrogates.
+ * SINGLE_BYTE_CHAR_P returns true for Latin-1 characters, which has
+   undesirable effects.
 
  * Rationalize character syntax and its relationship to the Unicode
    database.  Specifically, the latin-N.el files aren't consistent for
-   common characters.
+   common characters (and obviously have redundancies except in
+   unibyte mode).
 
- * Fontset handling and customization needs work.
+ * Fontset handling and customization needs work.  We want to relate
+   fonts to scripts, probably based on the Unicode blocks.  The
+   presence of small-repertoire 10646-encoded fonts in XFree 4 is a
+   pain, not currently worked round.
 
- * Likewise for charset and coding system priorities.
+ * Work is also needed on charset and coding system priorities.
 
  * The relevant bits of latin1-disp.el need porting (and probably
    re-naming/updating).  See also cyril-util.el.
 
- * Quail files need work now the encoding is irrelevant.  E.g. make
-   unified Latin pre- and post- methods.
+ * Quail files need more work now the encoding is irrelevant.
 
  * What to do with the old coding categories stuff?
 
- * Syntax for symbols &c in characters needs looking at.
+ * Syntax for symbols &c in characters.el needs looking at.
 
  * The preferred-coding-system property of charsets should probably be
    junked unless it can be made more useful now.
 
- * find-coding-systems-for-charsets needs re-writing.
+ * find-coding-systems-for-charsets needs re-writing or removing.
 
  * find-multibyte-characters needs looking at.
 
  * Implement Korean cp949/UHC and any other important missing
    charsets.
 
- * Check up on tcvn and alternativnj.
+ * Check up on definitions of tcvn and alternativnj.
 
  * Lazy-load tables for unify-charset somehow?
 
@@ -59,7 +63,7 @@
    speling and calendar, but that's not a Unicode issue.)
 
  * Handle Unicode combining characters usefully, e.g. diacritics, and
-   handle more scripts specifically (á la Devanagari).  There are
+   handle more scripts specifically (à la Devanagari).  There are
    issues with canonicalization.
 
  * Bidi is a separate issue with no support currently.
@@ -79,4 +83,16 @@
 
  * There's currently no support for Unicode normalization.
 
+ * Populate char-width-table correctly for Unicode chanaracters and
+   worry about what happens when double-width charsets covering
+   non-CJK characters are unified.
+
+ * Emacs 20/21 .elc files are currently not loadable.  It may or may
+   not be possible to do this properly.
+
+ * Encoding issues in babyl files/rmail need sorting out.
+
+ * Gnus still needs some attention, and we need to get changes
+   accepted by Gnus maintainers...
+
  * You can grep the code for lots of fixmes.