Comments on: Displacement and Common Lisp http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/12/displacement-and-common-lisp Ben Hyde Wed, 08 Oct 2008 03:04:06 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Santiago Gala http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/12/displacement-and-common-lisp#comment-2458 Santiago Gala Wed, 29 Dec 2004 21:11:16 +0000 http://enthusiasm.cozy.org/archives/2004/12/displacement-and-common-lisp/#comment-2458 the bad unicode support in emacs has been the reason why I have been using it less and less lately. Unicode is about being able to write something as simple as this sentence: 圣诞快乐和一新年好2005 年 Santiago J. Gala Pérez which is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2005 + my complete name. i.e., about mixing several character sets in the same document. This king of things works trivially in any java code, in python if started with LC_CTYPE=utf8, in OpenOffice, even echo in bash can handle it. Your page, unless something filters it badly, will handle it... but emacs can't save it to a text file without resorting to a proprietary encoding. They have been losing the train for too much time. the bad unicode support in emacs has been the reason why I have been using it less and less lately. Unicode is about being able to write something as simple as this sentence:

圣诞快乐和一新年好2005 年
Santiago J. Gala Pérez

which is Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year 2005 + my complete name. i.e., about mixing several character sets in the same document.

This king of things works trivially in any java code, in python if started with LC_CTYPE=utf8, in OpenOffice, even echo in bash can handle it. Your page, unless something filters it badly, will handle it…

but emacs can’t save it to a text file without resorting to a proprietary encoding. They have been losing the train for too much time.

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