Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp> writes:
The default should be a defcustom, probably defaulted to ISO-8859-1.
When possible, the coding system should be set according to LANG.
(Steve, were you running with LANG=ja or not? I gotta get some sleep,
so I'm not going to experiment further....)
No, let me try it again ... same result -- staircase mojibake.