Peter Dyballa wrote: > Recent Carbon Emacsen use QuickDraw from the days of Mac OS 8 or 9 > (last millennium). Then, there were anything but Mac encodings, I think > Mac OS 9.1 brought some early Unicode support to the Mac. I remember > that I already had some struggle with fontsets then. Today the > developers can't test everything unless they're hundred or more. Check > in CharacterPalette the Unicode blocks, i.e. scripts supported by > Unicode! The few developers that actually work on display issues can't > do that. And it's a nice feature allowing me to customize some things > ... Prêt-à-porter Carbon Emacsen exist too. They have the font or > fontset and other issues fixed. Why didn't you choose any of these: > (http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/aquamacs/Aquamacs-Emacs > -0.9.2b8.dmg?download + http://aquamacs.org/, > http://yaced.sourceforge.net/, > http://www.apple.com/downloads/macosx/unix_open_source/ > carbonemacspackage.html ? > > The cheap solution is to use the bitmapped GNU Intl fonts > -etl-fixed-... I think all European glyphs are contained in them, but > they look pretty ugly. So Carbon Emacs is something of a hack near the > end of a dead-end street. There is an effort going on to use ATSUI to > 'render' text in Emacs. I can't see much progress, and Christmas > (2006?) is far away either. > > The best performance is brought to you by Unicode Emacs 23. It runs in > X11. When using Apple's quartz-wm as proxy for your preferred Window > Manager you can copy&paste with other Quartz/Aqua based Mac OS X tools. > Similarly well is GNU Emacs 22 performing in X11, it only needs some > more advise in fontsets.
'Fraid this is well over my head. I just want an editor that works so that I can get some work done instead of having to know as much as the Emacs development team just to get it working :-( Zaphod _______________________________________________ Help-gnu-emacs mailing list Help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/help-gnu-emacs
