Re: [tlug] Multilanguage environment and encodings

[Charles Muller <acmuller@example.com>]

Like Viktor, the only Linux application that I have been able to use for any
serious extent of multilingual textual work, as well as multingual
e-mail,  is Emacs. At least the East Asian IMEs usually work without needing any special
configuration, and Mule will allow one to work in UTF-8.

For me, the biggest problem is still getting the proper fonts to work
on Linux in general, and on Emacs in particular. I also suffer from
the lack of techniques for doing input of other non-standard characters beyond
CJK, such as the Unicode-mapped diacritical characters that one needs
for romanizing Sanskrit and so forth (in the Latin Extended-Additional
area of Unicode). Unfortunately, I am still forced to return to MS Word to do a
lot of this work.

Chuck

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> >>>>> "SZ" == Stoyan Zhekov <sto@example.com> writes:
> 
>     SZ> 1. fonts - if I config Sylpheed with japanese fonts, i cannot
>     SZ>    read bulgarian (cp1251 encoding) and reverse. Is the UTF-8
>     SZ>    the only solution? But I recieve emails with mixed encodings
>     SZ>    so can for example iconv be used to convert them to the 
>     SZ>    common encoding (maybe some procmail recipe?) And how to
>     SZ>    enter texts? UTF-8 editor (xemacs? something else?) and
>     SZ>    iconv to cp1251 or jp?
> 
> I use emacs for text editing & email in English, Ukrainian, Japanese
> and some others (like Russian which isn't worth mentioning:). Input
> methods are in the leim package, fonts come with the linux
> distribution, and there are some fonts from GNU emacs too.
> 
> I would love to hear what others use. Emacs is everything but xterms
> (unfortunately) exist too :)
> 
> Viktor
> 
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