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Subject: Re: emacs and greek support (was: home pc use)
Date: Fri, 23 Nov 2001 13:37:48 +0100
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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
>
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