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

> iso-8859-1, which MULE calls a coding system, is something everyone
> else calls a character set.  The same with old-jis and iso-2022-jp.

I believe Michael's point was that, under Mule, you can create coding
systems that have nothing to do with character sets, such as a `gzip'
coding-system.  Coding systems are Emacs-specific hybrids between
character sets and their external representation.  This probably makes
them different enough from "character sets" to warrant for a separate
name.

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