For you multilingual Mule users, I've just posted and committed a big patch to latin unity. This is a major update, with lots of new functionality including an automated test suite and support for three new character set/coding systems (ISO 8859/13 "Baltic Rim", ISO 8859/14 "Celtic", and ISO 8859/16 "Romanian"). Coding cookies are verified, but the support is still somewhat buggy. A number of annoying bugs have been fixed, but probably some remain. The defaults are still inadequate; many weird behaviors are probably simply due to the fact that I haven't included your favorite Latin or universal coding system in the defaults. I'm happy to answer questions, but you may find quicker relief by proceeding directly to M-x customize-group RET latin-unity RET. The documentation has been fleshed out quite a bit, including a short FAQ in the Info page. Here's the ChangeLog. The full patch is available from CVS or on XEmacs Patches <87pttzir0m.fsf(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt;. Index: mule-packages/latin-unity/ChangeLog =================================================================== RCS file: /pack/xemacscvs/XEmacs/packages/mule-packages/latin-unity/ChangeLog,v retrieving revision 1.18 diff -u -U0 -r1.18 ChangeLog --- mule-packages/latin-unity/ChangeLog 17 Oct 2002 20:55:58 -0000 1.18 +++ mule-packages/latin-unity/ChangeLog 24 Oct 2002 19:07:56 -0000 ＠＠ -0,0 +1,142 ＠＠ +2002-10-25 Stephen J. Turnbull <steve(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; + + * (latin-unity-tables.el): Regenerate with Latin-7,8,10. + +2002-10-24 Stephen J. Turnbull <steve(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; + + * latin-unity-utils.el (latin-unity-dump-tables): Put creation + date information in a couple of useful places. + + * latin-unity-latin8.el: + * latin-unity-latin10.el: + New language environments. + + * latin-unity-vars.el: Add requires for Latin-8 and Latin-10. + + * latin-unity-utils.el (Table of Character Set Support): Fix typo. + Depend on latin-unity-vars.el to require the charset definitions. + + * latin-unity.texi (Frequently Asked Questions): New node. + Thanks, Didier! + (Theory of Operation): Minor corrections. + (What latin-unity Cannot Do for You): Minor corrections. + (Interfaces): Document Latin 7, 8, and 10. + (Charsets and Coding Systems): Document Latin 7, 8, and 10 + support, Unicode support in 21.5, and importance of escape-quoted. + +2002-10-22 Stephen J. Turnbull <steve(a)tleepslib.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; + + * BLURB: Update for Latin-7 support. + + * README: Update for Latin-7 support and test suite. + + * Makefile: Add latin-unity-latin-7.el, latin-latin7-input.el, and + latin-unity-tests.el. Disable check target, currently being + revised to work with latin-unity-tests.el. + + Reorganize sanity-check (and a couple other functions): + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-base-name): New function. + (latin-unity-maybe-set-coding-system): + (latin-unity-sanity-check): + (latin-unity-maybe-remap): + (latin-unity-hack-coding-cookie): + Use it. + + (latin-unity-coding-system-latin-charset): New function. + (latin-unity-maybe-remap): + (latin-unity-sanity-check): + Use it. + + (latin-unity-massage-name): New function. + (latin-unity-buffer-charsets-string): New function. + (latin-unity-sanity-check): Use them. + + (latin-unity-sanity-check): + (latin-unity-recommend-representation): + Remove now unused bindings of 'preferred and 'buffer-default. + + +2002-10-20 Stephen Turnbull <steve＠tleepslib1> + + * latin-unity.el: Mark potential improvements in various places. + (latin-unity-preferred-coding-system-list): Correct docstring. + (latin-unity-hack-coding-cookie): Fix symbol/name confusion. + (latin-unity-test): Deleted, tests move to latin-unity-test.el. + (latin-unity-list-coding-systems): Fix typo in comment. + + * latin-unity-tests.el: New file, use with test-harness.el. + +2002-08-31 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * latin-unity-latin7.el: + * latin-latin7-input.el: + New files for Latin 7 support. + + * Makefile (ELCS): Add latin-7 .elc files. + + * latin-unity-vars.el: + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-charset-alias-alist): Add latin-7. + + * BLURB: + * README: + * latin-unity.texi: + Describe Latin 7 support. + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-hack-cookies-prop-line): Don't do + anything, not even warn about format, if a correctly formatted + coding cookie isn't found. + +2002-06-30 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-recode-region): + (latin-unity-recode-coding-region): + (latin-unity-read-coding-system-or-charset): + Fix interactive spec brain-damage. + (latin-unity-test): Add Latin-1 test, interactive section, use + `format'. + +2002-06-25 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-hack-coding-cookie): + Convert buffer-file-coding-system to string before comparison, and + strip eol type. + (latin-unity-hack-cookies-enabled-p): + (latin-unity-hack-cookies-last-page): + Renamed from "hack-coding". + (latin-unity-hack-cookies-prop-line): Renamed. Skip past semicolon. + (latin-unity-sanity-check): Use new names. Reset cookie count. + (latin-unity-coding-cookies-found): + (latin-unity-may-set-coding-flag): + (latin-unity-like-to-live-dangerously): + (latin-unity-hack-cookies-enabled-p): + Moved up in file to avoid warnings and for style. + +2002-06-19 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-maybe-set-coding-system): Fix typo + in comment. Improve docstring. New arg; if args same, don't set + default. + (latin-unity-sanity-check): New flet base-name. Use new arg. + Warp coding-systems to name space. + (latin-unity-maybe-remap): Warp coding-system to name space. + +2002-05-21 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * README: Mention coding cookie validation. + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-hack-coding-last-page): + (latin-unity-hack-coding-prop-line): + New functions to validate coding cookies. + (latin-unity-sanity-check): Use them. + (latin-unity-hack-coding-enabled-p): New variable to control usage. + (latin-unity-hack-coding-cookie): New helper function. + +2002-05-16 Stephen J. Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; + + * README: Describe automatic adjustment of buffer-file-coding-system. + + * latin-unity.el (latin-unity-may-set-coding-flag): New variable. + (latin-unity-maybe-set-coding-system): New function using it. + (latin-unity-sanity-check): Use it. + -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN My nostalgia for Icon makes me forget about any of the bad things. I don't have much nostalgia for Perl, so its faults I remember. Scott Gilbert c.l.py