[climacs-devel] Unicode support in Climacs

[JC Helary]

On 2006/01/14, at 14:17, Daniel CAUNE wrote:

> My next comment might be a bit out of purpose.  Anyway it could be  
> interesting to have the identification of the language stored  
> within the character, or, more specifically, any identification of  
> the IME used to enter that character.  For which usage would it be  
> interesting?  Spelling purpose, automatic IME switch when character  
> cursor moves around, text search, etc..  I have no clear idea if  
> such information should be managed by the character layer (buffer  
> layer?), or by any other higher text layer.  Just my two cents.

In the case of CJK languages that would not be practical since the  
Han unification makes in difficult to identify whether a character is  
Chinese/Japanese or Korean.
I think Unicode takes automatically care of that since languages are  
pretty much grouped in planes so a character belonging to a plane is  
very likely to correspond to a specific language/language group/input  
mechanism etc.

I am not at all a unicode specialist so that has to be confirmed (the  
unicode at unicode.org list is the perfect place for that if necessary).

Jean-Christophe Helary