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Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:

> I don't think there's anything to stop you typing ça in an `English'
> current-language-environment which claims only to know about `ascii'.

Hm.  How should this be handled, then?  Well, I guess I could just ask
the user.  Is there a special function to prompt for a charset?

> Perhaps it could be defvar'ed from `charset' in
> `language-info-alist' if `unibyte-display' is defined?  (Not that I
> claim to understand this stuff.)

I didn't know about `language-info-alist'.  I've now hacked up an
mm-find-charset-region that should work under unibyte as well.

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