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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
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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.
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> 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