Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!ames!think!husc6!cs.utexas.edu!milano!titan!janssen From: janssen@titan.SW.MCC.COM (Bill Janssen) Newsgroups: comp.emacs Subject: Re: non-ASCII support Summary: output is not quite that simple Message-ID: <807@titan.SW.MCC.COM> Date: 23 Jun 88 00:29:59 GMT References: <2641@zyx.SE> Organization: MCC Software Technology Lines: 15 In article <2641@zyx.SE>, arndt@zyx.SE (Arndt Jonasson) writes: > Suggestions for how Gnu Emacs can be made to handle non-ASCII. ... > 1) Display. ... > characters. The changes involve a half dozen tests in xdisp.c and > indent.c, including a Lisp flag to toggle the new functionality on and > off. It isn't quite this easy. A lot of the code that figures out "what line is where" in the window uses the knowledge that certain character codes take up 2 or 4 character positions. This knowledge seems to be scattered through the code, and might require some rooting to eliminate cleanly. Bill