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BIG5 and CNS conversion definition on Mule-UCS(Universal enCoding System)
API and configuration manual.

        Written by Miyashita Hisashi (himi@bird.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp)
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o ... License

  Mule-UCS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Mule-UCS; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.

o ... Introduction

  This module introduce BIG5 conversion on Mule-UCS.
As you know, almost all character set in BIG5 can be mapped to CNS
characters set.  The appendix of RFC1922 defines a conversion table
bitween BIG5 and mainly some character sets registered by ISO-IR.
The conversion defined by this package was edited by Kawabata-san,
which convert BIG5 characters into mainly CNS 11643 character set, and
other characters that CNS have no correspondence are mapped into
GB 2312 or JIS X 0208 character sets; and vice versa.

o ... Installation

  You have only to byte-compile big5-cns.el.
You can use mucs-comp.el accompanied with Mule-UCS.

At the top directory of Mule-UCS, enter the following command line:

  emacs -batch -l mucs-comp.el lisp/big5conv/big5-cns.el

If you use Meadow, enter the following:

  Meadow95(NT) -batch -l mucs-comp.el lisp/big5conv/big5-cns.el

And then, you will obtain byte-compiled file, big5-cns.elc.
At last, you should install all files in big5conv directory
to your site-lisp directory.

o ... Brief instruction

  This module configure big5-conv-* coding system, and
set coding-category-big5 to big5-conv.  Notice that this coding system
supports CNS character sets internally --- not BIG5!  When inputing
characters under this coding system, you should confirm such characters
are of CNS.
  This coding system cannot encode BIG5 character set of emacs-mule.
If you save any documents that contains BIG5 characters, your Emacs
will display a warnning that this coding system cannot encode
this document safely.


