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Subject: Re: AWS Coding Styles (and about boring plain-linear text files in
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Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2011 14:32:24 +0100
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Le Wed, 19 Jan 2011 12:21:29 +0100, Stephen Leake  =

<stephen_leake@stephe-leake.org> a =C3=A9crit:
>> If there is an area where we still unfortunately stick to old obsolet=
e
>> systems, the is not about text width, this about two other points: 1)=

>> ASCII heritage vs Unicode (using either Emacs or VIM for
>> multi-language  text files is simply *impossible* most of the time,
>
> This has gotten much better in Emacs recently; it fully supports UTF-8=
.
Confirmed (just tested): for Windows users, don't get it from the stable=
  =

release (tested, just half success), get it from the alpha release (test=
,  =

full success). This is named Emacs 24. You may just have to read the doc=
  =

about Bidi if you need.
http://alpha.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/
(don't get a *-barebin-*, it does not contain all the required stuff to =
 =

run, get a *-bin-* instead)
The last was just updated this month, and is OK.

Now let's test this famous ada-mode :) (at least just to know what it  =

looks like)

-- =

Si les chats miaulent et font autant de vocalises bizarres, c=E2=80=99es=
t pas pour  =

les chiens.

=E2=80=9CI am fluent in ASCII=E2=80=9D [Warren 2010]