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authorKenichi Handa <[email protected]>2004-06-12 02:36:47 +0000
committerKenichi Handa <[email protected]>2004-06-12 02:36:47 +0000
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latter is used by GNU locales.
** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
-By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences (mostly representing CJK
-characters) are simply composed into single quasi-characters. User
-option `utf-translate-cjk' arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK
-character sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the
-Mule-UCS system. This uses significant space, so is not the default.
+By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences are simply composed into
+single quasi-characters. User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode' (it is
+turned on by default) arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character
+sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS
+system. As this loads a fairly big data on demand, people who are not
+interested in CJK characters may want to customize it to nil.
You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
`ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'. The utf-8
coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's