Daniel Pittman daniel@rimspace.net writes:
On 20 Nov 2004, Christophe Rhodes wrote:
Helmut Eller e9626484@stud3.tuwien.ac.at writes:
CMUCL, OpenMCL: support only iso-8859-1-unix. SBCL, CLISP: can be used with iso-8859-1-unix or utf-8-unix. Allegro: supports all three.
Thank you. What Lisp support do you need to support other external formats? A lisp-side understanding of the emacs multibyte system?
If so, where is emacs-mule-unix documented?
`emacs-mule' is an internal coding system -- *not* something that you really want to use for communications between (X)Emacs and another process.
Maybe -- but, unless I read Helmut's work wrongly, it's also the only way of communicating the full space of characters to Emacs -- that is, Helmut's message strongly implied to me that current released versions of the emacsen do not support utf-8 communications in any useful way. Is this correct?
Cheers,
Christophe