Re: standard-display-european

[Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>]

> My impression is that most people don't really want
> `standard-display-european'.  They only have it in their init files
> because it was useful (for Europeans) in Emacs 19 (or earlier?).
> There were many reports in newsgroups during the last years about
> "Emacs doesn't treat Umlaut characters correctly"; IIRC all were
> perfectly happy after removing `standard-display-european' from their
> init file.

Completely agreed.  We've actually changed standard-display-european in
Emacs-CVS to make fewer changes (to be closer to just setting up a latin-1
environment), but we should probably go yet a bit further.
The main problem is that it changed the default value of
enable-multibyte-characters (i.e. it puts Emacs in unibyte mode).
I suggest we get rid of this part of standard-display-european.


        Stefan