Re: Mule-UCS 0.71 (KITANOTENMANGU) release.

[Kenichi Handa <handa@xxxxxxxxx>]

"Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@xxxxxx> writes:
> At 00:30 00/02/11 +0900, $B5\2<(B $B>0(B:HIMI wrote:
>>  As you say, current Mule character sets is too narrow to support Unicode
>>  characters.  To reduce this problem, we will introduce new character sets
>>  based on Unicode.
>>  
>>  The new character set on Unicode is mule-unicode-0100-24ff.
>>  As you can guess from this name, it covers Unicode characters ranged
>>  from U+0100 to U+24FF.

> Why 24FF? There is quite some stuff after 24FF (although one can
> discuss whether these should be called characters, but that's
> a separate issue).

Simply because 0x2500-0x0100 is 96x96, that means that it
just fits in one Emacs' character set.

> I understand that you don't want to do beyond U+2FFF,
> although even that shouldn't be that difficult.

As we are running out two-byte character sets code area for
Emacs, it is difficult to add more 96x96 character set.  We
can add more one-byte character sets, thus supporting
Unicode characters beyond 0x24FF by dividing into 96
characters is easy.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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