Re: catting random bytes causes character craziness

Krishnakumar> Does it have anything to do with the fact that Krishnakumar> RedHat 8 uses UTF-8 by default ? I don't think so. That might help confuse XEmacs, but Mule was designed by people who (at the time) had religious opposition to Unicode, and (with a fair amount of justification) didn't trust in POSIX locales to do the right thing. Mule is suppose to DTRT in any given buffer regardless of other buffers or the global POSIX environment. -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.