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Date:	Wed, 20 Mar 2002 08:22:48 +0200 (IST)
From:	Eli Zaretskii <eliz AT is DOT elta DOT co DOT il>
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On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, deckerben wrote:

> Would it be possible for emacs to fully support mule functionality, like
> (Chinese) fonts?

The DJGPP port can only do that (and was tested to verify that it does) 
on an appropriately localized version of DOS/Windows.  That is, you can 
only see Chinese glyphs on a Chinese DOS/Windows system, Japanese on a 
Japanese system, etc.  In other words, the DJGPP port needs a DOS 
terminal that can display these glyphs directly (Emacs knows that by 
looking at the current DOS codepage).

On all other systems, you will see empty triangles instead of the 
characters that cannot be displayed, and will only be able to see the 
text in print, if you use the ps-print package in conjunction with a 
PostScript printer or the Ghostscript interpreter.

For European scripts, there's a limited support for display of 
characters even if the current codepage doesn't support them; read the 
node "MS-DOS and MULE" in the manual for more details.

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