Re: Japanese fonts in xemacs

["Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@example.com>]

>>>>> "jb" == Jonathan Byrne <jq@example.com> writes:

    jb> Stephen J. Turnball (turnbull@example.com) wrote:

    >> You cannot use the font menus or customize with anything except
    >> the iso-8859-* families.  Japanese, Chinese, Koreans, Russians,
    >> Indians, Thais, Vietnamese, etc are all screwed.

    jb> What family is Vietnamese a part of?  The characters are
    jb> almost the same as French, plus a few other accent marks that
    jb> (I think) aren't present in French?

I haven't investigated.  Vietnamese, whether for nationalistic reasons
or technical, has its own standard character sets, VSCII and VISCII (I
think the latter is a more recent version of the former).  IIRC, there
are enough extra characters that it breaks the 94 + 96 boundary
required to fit into ISO-8859 (which would make it a technical issue).

The Vietnamese also use hanzi.  I don't know how they encode them; I
would guess they use GB (the mainland standard encoding).

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