Mule bugs: misidentification (Latin-1 vs. Chinese), revert issues

[stephen@xemacs.org]

Nix writes:

 > (I *have* noticed some aspects of Gnus's MIME-handling improving when
 > MULE is active: I suppose without MULE, Gnus has *no* chance of
 > displaying unusual characters...)

Actually, you can get quite far with display without MULE.  IIRC,
historically that's why Gnus does things this way.  Consider that X11
doesn't know any differences among ISO Latin-1, ISO Latin-9 (hardly
surprising to humans), and ISO Arabic (astonishing to most humans).
Just change the registry of the font for the default face from
iso8859-1 to iso8859-15 to iso8859-6 as you have need for the ancient
currency symbol (aka the "horny bullet"), the Euro, or the language of
the Koran.

It's multilingual input and handling files in different character sets
*simultaneously* where MULE (or something like it) becomes essential.

 > OK. I can provide my 14 local patches, too (some already present in 21.4
 > but I didn't port them forward because I'm a moron).

Day job etc keeping you busy, eh?  :-)  Yes, please do.