Mike FABIAN wrote:
Christopher Fynn <cfynn@gmx.net> さんは書きました:
Multi-lingual support on Linux might get a little easier if Linux distributions installed UTF-8 based (i.e. Unicode based) locales by default,
UTF-8 is the default for all languages on SuSE Linux 9.1.
Great.
- and if default installations of Linux included all the libraries and so on necessary for supporting non-Latin & complex scripts - and put them in the right places.
Japanese and Chinese input both work out of the box on a default installation of SuSE Linux 9.1.
What about Indic scripts (Devanagari, Tamil, Bangla, etc.)?
SuSE, RedHat and so on *can* decide what they include on their CD's or DVD's and what gets included in a default installation. If emacs doesn't work with non-Latin scripts and xemacs does then perhaps only xemacs should be included in a default or minimal install - even if there might be howls of complaint from some quarters.
Actually Gnu Emacs is currently somewhat better for non-ASCII.
Personally I am using XEmacs because I am very used to XEmacs and I hope that the XEmacs developers can catch up. But currently Gnu Emacs has advantages if you want to use for example UTF-8.
OK - Chris