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Subject: "Coding system"?  Eh?
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Isn't what MULE calls a "coding system" what the entire rest of the
world call a "character set"?  So `decode-coding-system' should
really have been called `decode-charset'?

MULE is confusing.

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(domestic pets only, the antidote for overdose, milk.)
  larsi@ifi.uio.no * Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen