Stephen J Turnbull <turnbull(a)sk.tsukuba.ac.jp&gt; 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.

SL Baur wrote: > > Thanks for the patch, I've applied it to beta36. > > $B<i2,(B $BCNI'(B / MORIOKA Tomohiko <morioka(a)jaist.ac.jp&gt; writes: > > > CCL of XEmacs has problems about encoding. CCL encoding program set > > up to coding-system inserts bogus leading-byte of latin-iso8859-1 for > > 160 .. 255 value. > > > Following patch fixes this problem. At least, it seems fine for > > koi8-r. > > ... > > > If it will be accepted, it is time to revive CCL based > > coding-systems and related language depended settings. > > We'll take whatever you care to do.