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diff --git a/converters/mule-ucs-emacs20/pkg-descr b/converters/mule-ucs-emacs20/pkg-descr new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..d0a465b4238e --- /dev/null +++ b/converters/mule-ucs-emacs20/pkg-descr @@ -0,0 +1,24 @@ +Mule-UCS is an Emacs Lisp library to define encoding/decoding schemes by +rather simple translation rule. + +Emacs prepares encoding/decoding schemes in the following 2 mechanisms. + + (A) ... built-in ISO/IEC 2022 encoder/decoder + (B) ... Code Conversion Language(CCL) engine + +Although (A) provides powerful encoding/decoding schemes as to +ISO/IEC 2022, we cannot utilize this for any other encoding schemes. +(B) is a simple register machine. However, CCL program is arcane +language because it is infamous and mysterious:-P. + +Mule-UCS provides flexible and comprehensible encoding mechanism to Emacs. +Currently, Mule-UCS generates CCL program from the translation rule, but +in the future, Mule-UCS may support another conversion engine on Emacs. + +Predefined conversions for Mule-UCS included in this package are: + + * Unicode(UTF-7/8/16) support. + * Big5 <-> CNS conversion support. + +--- +Ported by okazaki@be.to |