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On Sat, 4 Aug 2001, Florian Weimer wrote:

> >> > The Emacs 21 mule-unicode coding system groks iso-8859-1 characters,
> >> > but not iso-8859-15.
> >> 
> >> Is anybody needed for fixing this?
> > 
> > Yes, you need either (1) install an add-on package such as Mule-UCS;
> > or (2) add support for using Unicode tables for encoding and decoding
> > Mule charsets into and from UTF-8; or (3) replace the internal
> > representation of characters used by Emacs to be based on Unicode.
> 
> Is somebody working on this?

I hope so.

> Which option has been chosen by the Emacs maintainers?

The 3rd one, AFAIU.  Since users want unification, it sounds like the
best approach, although it also means lots of work.

> I think I've got some unusal ideas on how Emacs might approach some
> aspects of Unicode (and which aspects cannot be implemented without a
> major paradigm shift), and I'd like to share them (and eventually,
> some code).

Please post those ideas to emacs-devel@gnu.org.  Thanks.