"Stephen J. Turnbull" <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; writes: He did... However he combined it with some other crap (explicit knowledge about jka-compr) from FSF emacs, and I vetoed that. A stand alone patch never appeared IMHO. My improved patch contains the 'binary part too, but that is stalled waiting for a new EFS. However it doesn't really require it so I guess it is time to apply the core part of it. So 1. package-get should use i-f-c-l 2. In 21.1.10 i-f-c-l should be made to use 'binary 3. Apply the core half of my patch to 21.2 (includes coding system change). Jan