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Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
>>   (standard-display-european 1)
> Yup.  Should Gnus make an effort to work in this case?

> status.  Perhaps Gnus should require non-unibyte Emacs?  But you sort
> of get what you asked for if you disable multibyte -- you don't get
> any multibytes, even in Gnus.  Perhaps Gnus could fail more gracefully
> though.  Hm.

While standard-display-european may make unibyte the default, it
doesn't seem to actually disable multibyte support.  I can run

        emacs -q --unibyte --eval '(standard-display-european 1)'

and the HELLO file still displays with some Asian, Cyrillic, Hebrew
and other characters, and enable-multibyte-characters still winds up
set to t in the help buffer.

Ken