Re: Redisplay with server-side X11 and Unicode internally.

>>>>> "Aidan" =3D=3D Aidan Kehoe <[email protected]> writes:

    Aidan> Perhaps this was obvious to everyone else, but it occurs to
    Aidan> me that once we have an internal encoding based on the UCS,
    Aidan> we can leverage Ben=A2s work with the existing Unicode coding
    Aidan> systems, which convert between Unicode and the Mule coding,
    Aidan> for redisplay with server-side X11 fonts. Simply convert to
    Aidan> the Mule encoding before using the existing redisplay code,
    Aidan> much as the Xft and Windows code presently converts to
    Aidan> Unicode before redisplay.

Basically, this is how XEmacs/UTF-2000 worked (ca 1999).  So, yes, it
will work.


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