Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:37:48 +0100 From: "Anthony Atkielski" <anthony@freebie.atkielski.com> To: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Re: emacs and greek support (was: home pc use) Message-ID: <055c01c1741b$a8e60370$0a00000a@atkielski.com> References: <20011123122804.GC10577@hades.hell.gr>
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Now that you mention this, I started wondering: Does FreeBSD (or UNIX in general) support Unicode? ----- Original Message ----- From: "Giorgos Keramidas" <charon@labs.gr> To: "Brian Sobolak" <sobolak@mindspring.com> Cc: <questions@FreeBSD.ORG> Sent: Friday, November 23, 2001 13:28 Subject: emacs and greek support (was: home pc use) > On 2001-11-23 03:15:51, Brian Sobolak wrote: > > Thursday, November 22, 2001, 11:57:52 AM, you wrote: > > > > [ talking about Emacs ] > > > > GK> Sure. It's so customizable, that new users will tend to drown in an > > GK> ocean of customizable knobs, in fact. I customarily use emacs to edit > > GK> plain text files or C, Perl, HTML, SGML, and a ton of other languages. > > > > Just out of curiousity, how does it handle Greek? Do you use the same > > environment to edit files in English as Greek (e.g. the same binary)? > > Sure. I use a greek console font on my console, and then fire up > emacs with: > > $ emacs -nw --unibyte > > By having the following in my .emacs file, I don't even need Mule > support to edit Greek text: > > (standard-display-8bit 128 256) > (set-input-mode (car (current-input-mode)) > (nth 1 (current-input-mode)) > 0) > > This is not the `official' way of using languages and encodings in > Emacs, since in X11 that usually involves Mule and the C-\ commands, > but this works nicely on the console and I mostly use FreeBSD on the > console :) > > -giorgos > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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