[Michael Welsh Duggan]

> No, not really.  A character set is merely a set of characters.
> [...]  A coding-system is just that: a coding-system.

[François Pinard]

> I'm no specialist, but my impression is that MULE does not makes such a
> clear separation.  Internally, each Mule "character" (I'm not sure of the
> terminology) holds information about both the code and its encoding.

That's sort of true for *latin-N* characters sets in MULE: They have a
"natural" encoding which is equivalent to the character set.  However,
two other Cyrillic coding systems map map to (subsets of) the MULE
character set latin-iso8859-9 (that's latin-5).  And it's not that way
for asian MULE character sets, I think even a single MULE character can
have several encodings in the same coding system (iso2022 or whatever).

-- 
Hallvard