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> The current Emacs still don't unify Unicode and the other
> legacy charsets (e.g. iso-8859-2, jisx0208, gb2312)
> automatically.  So, for instance, if iso-8859-2 characters
> arrive at Emacs with UTF8_STRING, they are decoded into the
> charset mule-unicode-0100-24ff and treated differently
> (e.g. in searching) than the characters of the charset
> iso-8859-2.

Okay, that explains it.  But playing the devils advocate a bit, does 
this
not simply point out a problem with Emacs, not GTK?  If UTF8_STRING is
the recommended thing to use, changing GTK would not help much, as there
are other X toolkits out there (Qt, Motif, and so on), that will start 
to
use UTF8_STRING also (Qt already does)?
Isn't this an argument for getting the Unicode Emacs branch released, or
unify charsets?

	Jan D.