On September 26, 2006 at 4:59PM +0200, jpalecek (at web.de) wrote: > > emacs21's utf-8 feature is insufficiency. The mule-ucs package > > provides Mule-UCS-Unicode which enhances the utf-8 feature. > > > > However, mule-ucs 0.84.999+0.20050930-1 or later version disables > > Mule-UCS-Unicode by default for some reason. > > > > To enable Mule-UCS-Unicode at run time, evaluate (require 'un-define) > > or (un-define-debian). > > > > To enable Mule-UCS-Unicode before user-specific init files (~/.emacs, > > ~/.xemacs/init.el or so) are loaded, set the environment variable > > DEB_MULEUCS_UNICODE to "on". > > > > See also /usr/share/doc/mule-ucs/README.Debian. > > Thank you, thank you > > I had mule-ucs installed even before, but didn't read the README. > By the way, what is the "some reason" for which it is disabled?
A major reason is mule-ucs overwrites Emacs features which cause troublesome such as bug#341593. Other things are, upstream is not active, next Emacs release has native UTF-8 support which should be prefered, etc. Anyway, you can enable Mule-UCS-Unicode at your own risk. > And what does the sentence in README > > ... mule-ucs ... support is feeble, Mule 4.1 supports Unicode better > > or something like that mean? Don't worry about it. Emacs 21 provides Mule 5.0 which has similar feature of Mule 4.1. (Emacs 20 provides Mule 4.0 which lacks auto-detection for UTF-8, and patched version of Emacs 20 provides Mule 4.1 which supports it.) -- Tatsuya Kinoshita
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