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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: =?ISO-2022-JP?B?GyRCPGkyLBsoQiAbJEJDTkknGyhC?= / MORIOKA Tomohiko
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>>>>> "Tomo" == MORIOKA Tomohiko <MORIOKA> writes:

Tomo> [1  <text/plain; ISO-8859-1 (quoted-printable)>]
>>>>> In <199702032014.MAA29572@xemacs.eng.sun.com> 
>>>>>> "Martin" = Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> wrote:

Martin> >>>>> "Adrian" == Adrian Aichner <aichner@ecf.teradyne.com> writes:

Martin> The `native' encoding of XEmacs-latin-1 is iso8859-1, which is
Martin> represented in XEmacs-Mule as the 'binary coding-system.
Martin> Europeans who live in an iso8859-1 world should be able to use
Martin> XEmacs/Mule in the default mode, without any language
Martin> environment.  It's probably a bug that there is no
Martin> coding-system named iso-8859-1, which would be an extension of
Martin> ISO2022 with support for switching to other encodings via
Martin> escape sequences.

Tomo>   `ctext' is the coding-system for iso-8859-1.  It may be confusing,
Tomo> so MULE and Emacs/mule has an alias `iso-8859-1'.  (XEmacs/mule is
Tomo> based on old MULE, so it does not have it, I guess)

I hope to do some more Mule/XEmacs synching when the next Emacs/mule
comes out.  Clearly there is much work to be done.

Martin

