Re: Is there any schedule about the emacs-unicode branch?

[Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxx>]

Robin Hu <huxw@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hi there:
>
>    I noticed there emacs-unicode branch is keeping on an active
>    developing,

I wouldn't describe it as very active :-/.

>    but is any release schedule there?

I've no idea about that one.

>    I am eager to that because of chinese gb18030 support.

If you don't need full support -- that's all of Unicode, isn't it? --
I think you could write a useful gb18030 coding system for Emacs 21,
at least for the development code.  There you can easily map unicodes
to any of the CJK characters that Emacs supports, e.g. the CNS sets,
using a hash table.

>    And is there any todo list available, I hope I can make any help.

Thanks.  There are probably relevant items in etc/TODO on the main
branch.  Things that come to mind concern font handling and
multilingual menus.  Also, I think README.unicode still lists some
things that need fixing (apart from documentation).  [To contribute
code or documentation, you need to sign a copyright assignment, by the
way.]

The major todo item is really to merge it with the current code base,
so it becomes generally usable, but that will be a rather serious
task...