Re: mule-ucs problem

On July 25, 2003, [mule:03345],
[email protected] wrote:

> I use this package to edit UTF-8 encoded file with Chinese characters. I 
> found a strange problem: A few of Chinese characters turned into blank 
> blocks (eg. UTF-8 code: 0xE4BDA0 and 0xE6838A ) when loaded from an 
> existing file. BUT these characters can be displayed correctly if you 
> input it from keyboard unless you close the buffer and reload from a file.
> 
> I have no problem in displaying gb2312 encoded file.
> 
> I guess mule-ucs has a bug in showing unicode characters or I have not 
> correctly configured something like fonts in emacs.

I guess these characters were converted from chinese-gb2312 to
japanese-jisx0212.  Mule-UCS prefers japanese-* instead of
chinese-*/korean-* in unification by default.

BTW, Debian mule-ucs (http://packages.debian.org/mule-ucs,
version 0.84-14 or later) prefers chinese-* if the LC_CTYPE (or
LANG) environment variable is set to zh.  Debian mule-ucs startup
file (/etc/emacs/site-start.d/40mule-ucs.el) has a trick (using
unicode-basic-translation-charset-order-list and
un-define-change-charset-order).

-- 
Tatsuya Kinoshita