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"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull@sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:

>     Lars> Er...  Does this mean that it's just a faulty
>     Lars> prefered-coding-system in Emacs 20.3 for `ethiopic'?
> 
> Yes.  Look at the iso-2022-int* coding systems; that's more likely to
> make sense to non-Japanese users, and should work as well.

Thanks; I've now sent a patch to Stallman for defaulting Ethiopic to
iso-2022-7bit, which seems to do the trick.

(Er -- shouldn't that be "Ethiopian"?)

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