ruediger

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1. 31.▲
   by ruediger 15y ago

   The web consists of a lot of markup and javascript. That's all in ASCII compatible characters. So on the web UTF-8 usually wins even for Japanese or Chinese texts. For example take a random page of the Japanese Wikipedia and encode it in UT
2. 32.▲
   by ruediger 15y ago

   I wouldn't use UTF-16 unless having to work with a legacy system. A lot of software claiming to handle UTF-16 is broken and really only works with UCS-2. You have to worry about endianess and so on. If you develop an application for the int
3. 33.▲
   by ruediger 15y ago

   I know. But for serious application a real drawing capability is needed. This should actually be possible to implement on top of the GTK+ layer.
4. 34.▲
   by ruediger 15y ago

   I wish Emacs would provide a canvas like API to draw in buffers. That way integrated graphics could be easily added. This would create a completely new Emacs experience.
5. 35.▲
   by ruediger 16y ago

   Some tricks from my .emacs: (server-start) ;; no Tabs (setq-default indent-tabs-mode nil) (setq-default tabs-width 2) ;; List more buffers in the buffer menu (setq-default buffers-menu-max-size 30) ;; Prevent startup mess
6. 36.▲
   Flusspferd (Javascript bindings for C++) version 0.5 released(flusspferd.org)

   2 points by ruediger 17y ago|2 comments