Package: xemacs21 Version: 21.4.20-2 Severity: normal
If I open a file with certain unicode characters then xemacs21 will fail to display them. Saving the file will replace those characters with question marks. This makes xemacs21 (mule and non-mule) unfit for working on unicode encoded text files. Try this unicode test file for example: http://www.w3.org/2001/06/utf-8-test/UTF-8-demo.html The german quotes is destroyed, and some other stuff too. The file displays fine in web browsers or xterm though. I have LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8 My .xemacs/init.el: (require 'un-define) (set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8)) (set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8) I translate software using xemacs "po" mode. The po-files are correctly marked as using utf-8. Still, xemacs21 doesn't support all of utf-8. Getting an occational wrong character on the screen is not a big issue for me - incomplete fonts do that all the time anyway. But having xemacs21 wreck valid utf-8, replacing some characters with "?" is a show-stopper for my use. It'd be very nice if xemacs21 would simply leave alone any character it doesn't "understand", so it isn't changed in output. Other editors I use don't have this problem, but they don't have a po-mode either. :-( Helge Hafting -- System Information: Debian Release: lenny/sid APT prefers testing APT policy: (900, 'testing'), (800, 'unstable'), (800, 'stable'), (700, 'experimental') Architecture: i386 (i686) Kernel: Linux 2.6.23 Locale: LANG=nb_NO.UTF-8, LC_CTYPE=nb_NO.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8) Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/bash Versions of packages xemacs21 depends on: ii xemacs21-mule 21.4.20-2 highly customizable text editor -- ii xemacs21-nomule 21.4.20-2 highly customizable text editor -- xemacs21 recommends no packages. -- debconf-show failed -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
