I haven't meant for anything I've written to indicate that Emacs is not a useful editor for UTF-8 encoded text. I have found it quite usable. I've had a couple of configuration headaches along to way specifically because I am simultaneously maintaining files in both UTF-8 and Latin-3.
If the alphabets you use fall within the ranges of characters that Emacs now handles, I can't see any strong argument not to use Emacs. I switched to the prereleases of Emacs 21 a few weeks ago specifically for the Unicode support. For me, there was really no option of choosing anything else, even if I had wanted to. I am doing some heavily customized stuff supported by a pile of Emacs Lisp code tailored to my data over the past 6 1/2 years. Emacs Lisp has saved me hundred of hours. In the end, I would like to see Emacs use Unicode internally. Oliver Doepner wrote: > I was happy to see Emacs 21 announced. but the unicode support does not > seem to have moved forward very much - as i have heard and read from some > people. > > my question: what happened in this area in Emacs 21 ?? Is the internal > representation still the special MULE format ??~ > And are there any plans and/or activities to achieve these things ? -- D. Dale Gulledge, Sr. Programmer, [EMAIL PROTECTED] C, C++, Perl, Unix (AIX, Linux), Oracle, Java, Internationalization (i18n), Awk. - Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
