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MULE changes.

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** There are new configure options associated with the support for
images and toolkit scrollbars.  Use the --help option to list them.

* Changes in Emacs 21.1

** M-; now calls comment-dwim which tries to do something clever based
on the context.

** The function `getenv' is now callable interactively.

** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment
and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup.

** New language environments `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
These correspond respectively to the ISO character sets 8859-14
(Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).  There is
currently no specific input method support for them.

** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sqeuence-nos' to
remove text past column 72.  The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now
appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.

** The text property `keymap' specifies a key map which overrides the
buffer's local map and the map specified by the `local-map' property.
This is probably what most current uses of `local-map' want, rather
than replacing the local map.

** The function `find-image' can be used to find a usable image
satisfying one of a list of specifications.

** The obsolete variables before-change-function and
after-change-function are no longer acted upon and have been removed.

** The function `apropos-mode' runs the hook `apropos-mode-hook'.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

+++
** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.


* Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs
Lisp Manual

** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center'.

When this property is specified, the image is vertically centered
around a centerline which would be the vertical center of text drawn
at the position of the image, in the manner specified by the text

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** There are new configure options associated with the support for
images and toolkit scrollbars.  Use the --help option to list them.

* Changes in Emacs 21.1

** Variable `default-korean-keyboard' is initialized properly from the
environment variable `HANGUL_KEYBOARD_TYPE'.

** C-u C-x = provides detailed information about the character at
point in a pop-up window.

** New command M-x list-charset-chars reads a character set name and
displays all characters in that character set.

** M-x set-terminal-coding-system (C-x RET t) now allows CCL-based
coding systems such as cpXXX and cyrillic-koi8.

** M-; now calls comment-dwim which tries to do something clever based
on the context.

** The function `getenv' is now callable interactively.

** Emacs now attempts to determine the initial language environment
and preferred and locale coding systems systematically from the
LC_ALL, LC_CTYPE, and LANG environment variables during startup.

** New language environments `Polish', `Latin-8' and `Latin-9'.
Latin-8 and Latin-9 correspond respectively to the ISO character sets
8859-14 (Celtic) and 8859-15 (updated Latin-1, with the Euro sign).
There is currently no specific input method support for them.

** Fortran mode has a new command `fortran-strip-sqeuence-nos' to
remove text past column 72.  The syntax class of `\' in Fortran is now
appropriate for C-style escape sequences in strings.

** The text property `keymap' specifies a key map which overrides the
buffer's local map and the map specified by the `local-map' property.
This is probably what most current uses of `local-map' want, rather
than replacing the local map.

** The obsolete variables before-change-function and
after-change-function are no longer acted upon and have been removed.

** The function `apropos-mode' runs the hook `apropos-mode-hook'.

Note that +++ before an item means the Lisp manual has been updated.
--- means that I have decided it does not need to be in the Lisp manual.
When you add a new item, please add it without either +++ or ---
so I will know I still need to look at it -- rms.

*** The functions `find-charset-region' and `find-charset-string' include
`eight-bit-control' and/or `eight-bit-graphic' in the returned list
when it finds 8-bit characters.  Previously, it included `ascii' in a
multibyte buffer and `unknown' in a unibyte buffer.

*** The functions `set-buffer-modified', `string-as-multibyte' and
`string-as-unibyte' change the byte sequence of a buffer if it
contains a character from the `eight-bit-control' character set.

*** The handling of multibyte sequences in a multibyte buffer is
changed.  Previously, a byte sequence matching the pattern
[\200-\237][\240-\377]+ was interpreted as a single character
regardless of the length of the trailing bytes [\240-\377]+.  Thus, if
the sequence was longer than what the leading byte indicated, the
extra trailing bytes were ignored by Lisp functions.  Now such extra
bytes are independent 8-bit characters belonging to the charset
eight-bit-graphic.

** Fontsets are now implemented using char-tables.

A fontset can now be specified for for each independent character, for
a group of characters or for a character set rather than just for a
character set as previously.

*** The arguments of the function `set-fontset-font' are changed.
They are NAME, CHARACTER, FONTNAME, and optional FRAME.  The function
modifies fontset NAME to use FONTNAME for CHARACTER.

CHARACTER may be a cons (FROM . TO), where FROM and TO are non-generic
characters.  In that case FONTNAME is used for all characters in the
range FROM and TO (inclusive).  CHARACTER may be a charset.  In that
case FONTNAME is used for all character in the charset.

FONTNAME may be a cons (FAMILY . REGISTRY), where FAMILY is the family
name of a font and REGSITRY is a registry name of a font.

*** Variable x-charset-registry has been deleted.  The default charset
registries of character sets are set in the default fontset
"fontset-default".

*** The function `create-fontset-from-fontset-spec' ignores the second
argument STYLE-VARIANT.  It never creates style-variant fontsets.

** The method of composing characters is changed.  Now character
composition is done by a special text property `composition' in
buffers and strings.

*** Charset composition is deleted.  Emacs never creates a `composite
character' which is an independent character with a unique character
code.  Thus the following functions handling `composite characters'
have been deleted: composite-char-component,
composite-char-component-count, composite-char-composition-rule,
composite-char-composition-rule and decompose-composite-char delete.
The variables leading-code-composition and min-composite-char have
also been deleted.

*** Three more glyph reference points are added.  They can be used to
specify a composition rule.  See the documentation of the variable
`reference-point-alist' for more detail.

*** The function `compose-region' takes new arguments COMPONENTS and
MODIFICATION-FUNC.  With COMPONENTS, you can specify not only a
composition rule but also characters to be composed.  Such characters
may differ between buffer and string text.

*** The function `compose-string' takes new arguments START, END,
COMPONENTS, and MODIFICATION-FUNC.

*** The function `compose-string' puts text property `composition'
directly on the argument STRING instead of returning a new string.
Likewise, the function `decompose-string' just removes text property
`composition' from STRING.

*** The new function `find-composition' returns information about
a composition at a specified position in a buffer or a string.

*** The function `decompose-composite-char' is now labeled as
obsolete.

** The new character set `mule-unicode-0100-24ff' is introduced for
Unicode characters of the range U+0100..U+24FF.  Currently, this
character set is not used.

** The new character sets `japanese-jisx0213-1' and
`japanese-jisx0213-2' are introduced for the new Japanese standard JIS
X 0213 Plane 1 and Plane 2.

+++
** The new character sets `eight-bit-control' and `eight-bit-graphic'
are introduced for 8-bit characters in the ranges 0x80..0x9F and
0xA0..0xFF repectively.

+++
** If the APPEND argument of `write-region' is an integer, it seeks to
that offset in the file before writing.


* Lisp-level Display features added after release 2.6 of the Emacs
Lisp Manual

** The function `find-image' can be used to find a usable image
satisfying one of a list of specifications.

+++
** The STRING argument of `put-image' and `insert-image' is now
optional.

** Image specifications may contain the property `:ascent center'.

When this property is specified, the image is vertically centered
around a centerline which would be the vertical center of text drawn
at the position of the image, in the manner specified by the text