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Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:

> Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:
> 
> > The latest XEmacs/Mule is supposed to have UTF-8 support (I'm not sure 
> > about UTF-7), but it needs some special initialization.  Bleah.
> 
> But how does it work?  Does `char-charset' on a utf-8 char say
> `utf-8', or something?

No, utf-8 is implemented as a coding-system, not a charset.  This
means that you can decode external data from utf-8 to internal format, 
and result in having ASCII, Latin-1, Latin-2, and other characters
inserted in the buffer.  Which is quite correct, I'd say.

Understanding the difference between a (Mule) charset and a (Mule)
coding-system is the first step to (Mule) enlightenment.