Re: emacs 21.4, Chinese and utf-8

[Kai <m_pupil@xxxxxxx>]

Stefan Müller wrote:

>
> Hi,
>
> I am a grammar developer and I started to work on Chinese. We use a
> development system that needs utf-8 input. I managed to set up
> everything for emacs 21.3. All I had to say was:
>
> (setq default-input-method \"chinese-py\")
> (set-default-coding-systems 'utf-8)
>
> And storing the files with Chinese characters in utf-8 and telling
> emacs about it with the line:
>
> % -*- coding:utf-8 mode:trale-prolog-*-
>
> was sufficient.
>
> I put together a CD rom that is based on Knoppix, which is a debian
> distribution. Debian uses emacs 21.4 and all I found out does not work
> any longer:
>
> I can set the input-method to chinese-py by hand and type chinese
> characters, but I cannot save them in utf-8. I can set this option for
> saving the buffer, but if I try to safe the file emacs asks again and
> utf-8 is not offered as an option.
>
> Do you have any ideas what I could do about this?
>
> Thanks and best wishes
>
>
> Stefan
>
>
emacs < 21.4 does support utf-8 chinese
emacs 22.x (CVS MAIN trunk) provide limited utf-8 chinese support
emacs 23.x (CVS emacs-unicode-2 brunch) have full utf-8 chinese support,
but it's not a very stable version, it's in alpha state