XEmacs doesn't support windows-1252

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

Mike FABIAN writes:

 > > I had planned to make available an XEmacs with Unicode as an internal
 > > encoding (and I have most of the necessary work for that on my disk), but I
 > > don’t think that is maintainable in the presence of both the Mule and the
 > > non-Mule compilation options (which means, in the presence of Unicode
 > > internally, four ./configure options with which everything needs to be
 > > tested when anyone makes any change that’s relevant to character
 > > encoding). And the elimination of the non-Mule compilation options has been
 > > vetoed, so it looks like users are stuck with the internal Mule encoding.

 > That is really a pity. I think it would be a big advantage to use
 > Unicode as an internal encoding.

Yeah, it would, although IMO maintaining compatibility with Mule (NOT
non-Mule) is what will be tedious and maybe tricky; a lot of user-
visible Mule behavior depends on the charset abstraction.

As far as "maintainability" goes, all he has to do is put it on a
branch, and he can do anything he pleases.  But nobody (except me, and
Bill Perry at my instigation) has ever been willing to do that. :-(