[climacs-devel] Unicode support in Climacs

[JC Helary]

> overkill, especially since there are so many of them. I find it most
> important to support the range of characters defined in ISO-8859-1,
> since they are the ones most likely to be used.

:)

I type in Japanese all day, as well as French, and English, and I can  
tell you that in 2006, any text editor that does not support Unicode  
for at least the 10 biggest languages in the world is not going to go  
very far.

And that has to be intuitive too. If possible with no need to set  
obscure parameters hidden in the GUI (a la Mule), with no need to  
install separate input systems (a la X11) etc.

Everything from input to display to file saving/opening has to be  
relatively smooth otherwise the application is useless.

I read somewhere that the only Common Lisp that supports Unicode  
fully is CLISP, it is a pity the other are either not "compliant" or  
default on latin-1.

It is about time people understand that "text" in "text editor" is  
not anymore synonymous with "ascii"... :)

Regards,
Jean-Christophe Helary