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Subject: Re: Emacs 20.1 NEWS file from Mule mailing list
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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:
>> The Mule part of the pre-release NEWS file for Emacs 20.1 follows.
> [...]

> Well?  What's the sentence?  Are we better? :-)

It depends on how you look at it.  You can cut & paste Japanese text
from XEmacs into it.  I've been unable to cut & paste text out of it
without it dropping core (any destination).  Some text is transferred
prior to it giving up the ghost, and Japanese characters going into
XEmacs/Mule get mangled.

I haven't created any benchmarks yet to test relative speed.  I'm most
interested in a comparison of Mule-ish sorts of things, and none of
our current benchmarks address them.  It's interesting to note that
loading the mule-demo file (bound to C-h h) is extremely slow.

There is a cool Mule menu I'd like to see introduced in XEmacs.

There is currently no support for daemonic Input Method backends, on
the other hand, XEmacs has no native support for a Japanese Input
Method written completely in Emacs lisp.

There are major implementation differences that show through at the User
Interface level.  A menu option is provided to toggle between single
byte characters and Mule-multibyte characters.  Lossage from variably
sized fonts is displayed with boxes around truncated characters.

Basically, after seeing it I feel better about the choices Ben made
when he was importing Mule 2.3 code into XEmacs, and I hope the time
is short until we are able to let RMS have that code.
-- 
steve@calag.com baur
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