Re: CJK in (auctex)I18n

From: Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CJK in (auctex)I18n
Date: Sun, 27 Feb 2005 06:30:24 +0100 (CET)

> > "usable for CJK" just means MULE.  I am copying Werner Lemberg with
> > this message, maybe he knows more about it.  Also some of our
> > Japanese contributors probably have more of a clue.
> > 
> > Basically, I guess the manual entry should be revised.
> 
> Yes.  Emacs > 21.3 works just fine for CJK languages.

You mean Emacs < 22.1 does not support UNICODE CJK chars?  If
so, I agree with you.  UNICODE support of Emacs < 22.1 is
limited.  Maybe we should put some words for unicode.

I put the final(?) revised draft at the end of this mail.

Comments and discussions are welcome.

I'll commit this in a few days.

best,
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email: [email protected]
Name:: Masayuki Ataka // (Japan)


@node I18n
@chapter Internationalization
@cindex Internationalization
@cindex Character set
@cindex National letters
@cindex CJK language
@cindex MULE
@cindex k@TeX
@cindex H@LaTeX
@cindex p@TeX
@cindex ASCII p@TeX
@cindex j@TeX
@cindex NTT j@TeX
@cindex CJK-@LaTeX
@cindex UNICODE
@cindex MULE-UCS

@TeX{} and Emacs are usable for European (Latin, Cyrillic, Greek) based
languages.  Some @LaTeX{} packages and EmacsLisp are available for easy
typesetting and editing European languages.

For @acronym{CJK} (Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) language,
@acronym{MULE, MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs} supported Emacsen
are needed.  @acronym{MULE} is part of GNU Emacs from Emacs 20; XEmacs
should be configured with @samp{--with-mule} option.  Special versions
of @TeX{} are needed for @acronym{CJK} languages; ASCII p@TeX{} and NTT
j@TeX{} for Japanese; H@LaTeX{} and k@TeX{} for Korean; and
@acronym{CJK}-@LaTeX{} package for @acronym{CJK}.

Note that UNICODE is not fully supported in Emacs 21 and XEmacs; CJK
characters are not usable.  Use MULE-UCS EmacsLisp package or Emacs 22
(not available).

@c FIXME  Is there special version of TeX for Chinese?