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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

** recentf changes.

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** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
library.  These include complete versions of most of those in
codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings.

** The utf-8 coding system has been enhanced.  Untranslatable utf-8
sequences (mostly representing CJK characters) are composed into
single quasi-characters.  User option `utf-translate-cjk-mode'
arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK character sequences into real
Emacs characters in a similar way to the Mule-UCS system.  The utf-8
coding system will now encode characters from most of Emacs's
one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.

** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system.  Just specify the
fontset appropriately.

---
** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".

+++
** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mails
in a directory or in a file.  See the documentation of the user option
`display-time-mail-directory'.

+++
** The new option `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' causes Info to behave

to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display
mode-lines in inverse-video.

---
** The obsolete C mode (c-mode.el) has been removed to avoid problems
with Custom.

** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).



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** A French translation of the Emacs Tutorial is available.


* Changes in Emacs 21.4

** A UTF-7 coding system is available in the library `utf-7'.

** GUD mode has its own tool bar for controlling execution of the inferior
and other common debugger commands.

** recentf changes.

---
** Many new coding systems are available by loading the `code-pages'
library.  These include complete versions of most of those in
codepage.el, based on Unicode mappings.

** The utf-8/16 coding systems have been enhanced.
By default, untranslatable utf-8 sequences (mostly representing CJK
characters) are simply composed into single quasi-characters.  User
option `utf-translate-cjk' arranges to translate many utf-8 CJK
character sequences into real Emacs characters in a similar way to the
Mule-UCS system.  This uses significant space, so is not the default.
You can augment/amend the CJK translation via hash tables
`ucs-mule-cjk-to-unicode' and `ucs-unicode-to-mule-cjk'.  The utf-8
coding system now also encodes characters from most of Emacs's
one-dimensional internal charsets, specifically the ISO-8859 ones.
The utf-16 coding system is affected similarly.

** iso-10646-1 (`Unicode') fonts can be used to display any range of
characters encodable by the utf-8 coding system.  Just specify the
fontset appropriately.

---
** Speedbar has moved from the "Tools" top level menu to "Show/Hide".

+++
** Emacs can now indicate in the mode-line the presence of new e-mail
in a directory or in a file.  See the documentation of the user option
`display-time-mail-directory'.

+++
** The new option `Info-scroll-prefer-subnodes' causes Info to behave

to use standout mode, however they will not be able to display
mode-lines in inverse-video.

---
** The obsolete C mode (c-mode.el) has been removed to avoid problems
with Custom.  cplus-md.el, which required it, has also been removed.

** New package benchmark.el contains simple support for convenient
timing measurements of code (including the garbage collection component).