Re: Unicode: is it safe to use it ?

From: Xavier Maillard (zedek_at_gnu-rox.org)
Date: 08/31/03

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Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2003 07:28:36 +0200

    Christophe Courtois <christophe@courtois.cc> writes:

    > Le Vendredi 22 Août 2003 00:08, Alex Malinovich a déclamé :
    > > Assuming you're exchanging messages with friends who have French,
    > > Japanese, and English fonts installed, and that their mailers
    > > support Unicode, you'll obviously have no problem. Assuming that
    > > they speak and
    >
    > Yeah, it's OK. With Kmail, I can use : French ( œ æ € Ç
    > ), German ( ß), Polish (całego świata. Dostępne są
    > też ŽŽ), Chinese (
    > 新聞、商業信息、文化藝
    > ), Japanese
    > (ダンス・エレクトロニカ
    > ), Thaï
    > (พระราชดำริสมเด็จพระเทพรัตนราชสุดาฯ
    > สยามบ), Hebrew (זכרמב -
    > הבכרמה טקיורפ), something from
    > India (ैं ओर राष्ट्रपति
    > सद्दाम हुसैन से मिल
    > चुके हैं. ), Russian (Слова и
    > музыка)...
    >
    > The only problem is to have a nice font to display the message. For
    > example, I use Bitstream fonts.

    Hmm, AFAIK, for me, Bitsream has no way to handle Unicode. Am I missing
    something ?

    > Charset here is utf-8.

    Yep and it seems it doesn't display correctly with my MUA (Gnus) which
    is quite weird because it is known to handle pretty well (at least
    Emacs) Unicode even if it is not perfect (understand fully functional).

    zeDek 

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