I18n, Latin. charactersets
On Fri, Jan 10 1997 15:53 +0100 Milan Zamazal writes:
> >>>>> "DF" == David Frey <david@eos.lugs.ch> writes:
>
> DF: I could contribute some rc-files for Swiss (i.e Latin1) setup
> DF: with the exclusion of Emacs-configuration, since I don't know
> DF: enough Lisp.
>
> DF: Are there some Latin[2-8] collegues around to coordinate?
> DF: (There is somebody in the .cz domain (Czecho-Slovakia [I know,
> DF: this spelling is wrong, but what is the right one?], Marek is
> DF: in .pl (Poland), both Latin2 and somebody is in .il (Israel,
> DF: Latin8). Lars is in .fi (Finland as we all know, Latin3 ?), so
> DF: Latin[5-7] are still missing, Latin5 (Cyrillic) is probably
> DF: most important)
>
> Well, I'm from Czech Republic (ISO 8859-2), country with nontrivial
> i18n problems, so may be I could a little help in this area. As I'm
> an Emacs phanatic I don't know much about other programs, but:
> There is surely no problem with programs like bash which only need
> to be set to display relevant 8-bit characters (even when they
> sometimes call it `latin1' like less).
Surely not. But they have should be shipped in my opinion anyways;
therefore my suggestion (it's not a big thing, anyone needing special,
accented characters could do it).
> In Emacs this is also trivial by adding
> (standard-display-european)
> to some startup file. It could be also useful to add
> (require 'iso-syntax) ; for ISO 8859-1
> or
> (require 'iso02-syn) ; for ISO 8859-2, not available in XEmacs 19.14
> Probably some other programs can be easily extended by extending
> their ISO 8859-1 extension to ISO 8859-2.
>
> BTW, I've noticed XFree 3.2 offers to use XKB extension. It even
> offers "Czechoslovakia" keyboard even with dead key but there is a
> small problem: only ISO 8859-1 characters can be typed on this
> keyboard. Does some X expert know whether it is possible to correct
> it? It would be very nice for people in Czech Republic. When we can
> see 8-bit characters, it would be nice to type them too.
I'm still using XFree 3.1.2. There the dead keys are IMNSHO a lost case,
I gave it up to configure them correctly in X11 R6 (in R5 they worked
wonderfully, grrr :). Moreover, xmodmap strips them silently out, even
when they are configured correctly in the kernel modmap!
> [ Short geographic explanation:
> Czechoslovakia (domain .cs) has splited in 1993 to
> Czech Republic (domain .cz) and
> Slovakia (domain .sk) ]
Thanks. I knew that they splitted, but didn't knew the domain names.
David
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