Re: UTF-8 breakage

[Reiner Steib <4uce.02.r.steib@gmx.net>]

On Fri, Nov 29 2002, Matthias Andree wrote:

> Matthias Andree <ma@dt.e-technik.uni-dortmund.de> writes:
[...]
>> (require 'ucs-tables)

I think (CMIIW) that you need either...

>> (ucs-unify-8859)

... or those two:

>> (unify-8859-on-encoding-mode t)
>> (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode t)

> It turned out that I also had to add and require utf-8 recently for
> reasons I'm not going to investigate.
>
> Thanks to Reiner Steib for his document about Gnus UTF-8 and ISO-8859-15
> unification for just mentioning utf-8 .-)

With Emacs 21.[1-3], you also need a newer version of utf-8.el and
load it with (load-library "utf-8"), see [1]:

| The version of `utf-8.el' shipped with 21.1 or 21.2 is _not_ sufficient.
| Moreover (because the code of `utf-8.el' is dumped into the emacs binary
| at build time), it's _not_ enough to replace `utf-8.el*' in the directory
| share/emacs/21.?/lisp/international by the new ones.

Bye, Reiner.

[1] <URL: http://my.gnus.org/Members/rsteib/howto_unify/>
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