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Ted Zlatanov <tzz@lifelogs.com> writes:

> Maybe contrib/ucs-tables.el should throw an error if emacs-version is
> 21.3 or greater?

I don't think that's a good thing to do.  It just needs to be put in
the right place.

> The user could set gnus-load-contrib-ucs-tables if they really,
> really want to use contrib/ucs-tables.el.

??

> Another option is to rename it to ucs-tables-compat.el and make sure
> nothing in it conflicts with the new ucs-tables.el.

No.  That would screw require/provide.  The major incompatibility in
that file will be related to the removal of the
`char-coding-system-table' machinery recently, but also handa did
various sanitizations that were possible when it was actually part of
Emacs.