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Date: Sun, 20 Jul 2008 17:50:33 -0400
From: David Relson <relson@osagesoftware.com>
To: "David Sveningsson" <ext@sidvind.com>
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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] emacs and asian languages
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On Sun, 20 Jul 2008 22:29:15 +0200
David Sveningsson wrote:

> Citerar "David Relson" <relson@osagesoftware.com>:
> 
> > I'm using emacs.22.1 and it's having trouble displaying asian
> > languages, specifically chinese and korean.
> >
> > From the menus, using Options//Mule//ShowMultiLingualText, displays
> > Japanese correctly but shows boxes for Chinese and Korean
> > characters.
> >
> > Similarly, I've got a HelloWorld.java program that displays "Hello
> > World" in English, Chinese, Japanese, and Korean. This file displays
> > perfectly using Eclipse.  Emacs displays the japanese characters
> > without any problem.  4 of the 5 chinese characters are displayed
> > properly, with the 5th showing as a box.  All 8 korean characters
> > show up as boxes.
> >
> > FWIW, the strings show up properly in my mail reader (Claws-Mail).
> > The strings are:
> >
> >     zh: "____________"
> >     ja: "_____________________"
> >     ko: "____________ ______"
> >
> > Can anybody identfy what's wrong and point me toward a solution?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > David
> >
> >
> 
> This sounds like a font issue to me. Can you see the characters  
> correctly if you cat the files?

Hi David,

Using a Gnome terminal and the default character set "Current Local
Ansi_X3.4-1968" all the asian characters are bad.  Using "Unicode
(UTF-8)" all look good.  So cat'ing _does_ work properly.

On the plus side, being able to display correctly in (1) a Gnome
terminal and (2) in Eclipse's source code window (which uses
"Monospace") and (3) in a Claws-Mail window indicates that all needed
fonts are available.

On the minus side, e experiments to change emacs' mule encoding to
ascii, chinese, and utf-8 don't seem to have any effect :-<

David