Re: BeOS port news and public patch

François Revol <[email protected]> Fri, 28 May 2004 11:44:10 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.design,gmane.emacs.xemacs.patches,gmane.emacs.xemacs.beta
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Selon "Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]>:

> >>>>> "François" == François Revol <[email protected]> writes:
> 
>     François> It keeps trying to instanciate fonts for obscure
>     François> charsets. Anyone knows how to do that ?
> 
> No, it hasn't been done yet as far as I know.  Not even for Windows.
> There were some attempts for Xft support, but I found them to be (a)
> unstable and (b) broken on Japanese.
> 
> You're going to have to redo the code in the redisplay section.
> 
Ok then, will dig into it.
Maybe a "virtual" utf-8 charset would do, but it seems
Emacs has a very specific idea about what charsets are 
(256 or 256^2 ?).
Has any of those attempts been published somewhere ?

François.