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> > I dislike the way Emacs handles multi-byte strings, because it seems > > to me that it requires every piece of code which wants to manipulate > > strings to understand N different character sets. Any approach to > > multi-lingual support should use a single, canonical encoding > > throughout the system. > > Won't the GNU Emacs switch to Unicode after 21.0 anyways? Is that true? This is the first I've heard of it. I'd consider that a rumor until someone shows me a post from Stallman saying it's so. > > My favorite candidate for that single, canonical encoding is UTF-8, > > and Unicode. I realize Unicode is unpopular in Japan, but I've never > > been given any convincing explanation for this. > > Would it make sense to provide some lib-copylefted portable unicode > lib, as part of or separated from GNU libc, so that the many > languages that have free implementations don't have to reinvent it > each time and bloat on the way, once they start to support unicode? Sure, once there is some kind of de facto consensus on what such a library should do.