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Describe Emacs setup in UTF-8 locales.

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into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.

To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.

* The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.

This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
slots now.  If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.

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into a mule-unicode-0100-24ff buffer, Emacs won't be able to save that
buffer neither as ISO 8859-7 nor as UTF-8.

To work around this, install some add-on package such as Mule-UCS.

* Problems when using Emacs with UTF-8 locales

Some systems, including recent versions of GNU/Linux, have terminals
or X11 subsystems that can be configured to provide Unicode/UTF-8
input and display.  Normally, such a system sets environment variables
such as LANG, LC_CTYPE, or LC_ALL to a string which ends with a
`.UTF-8'.  For example, a system like this in a French locale might
use `fr_FR.UTF-8' as the value of LANG.

Since Unicode support in Emacs, as of v21.1, is not yet complete (see
the previous entry in this file), UTF-8 support is not enabled by
default, even in UTF-8 locales.  Thus, some Emacs features, such as
non-ASCII keyboard input, might appear to be broken in these locales.
To solve these problems, you need to turn on some options in your
`.emacs' file.  Specifically, the following customizations should make
Emacs work correctly with UTF-8 input and text:

    (setq locale-coding-system 'utf-8)
    (set-terminal-coding-system 'utf-8)
    (set-keyboard-coding-system 'utf-8)
    (set-selection-coding-system 'utf-8)
    (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

* The `oc-unicode' package doesn't work with Emacs 21.

This package tries to define more private charsets than there are free
slots now.  If the built-in Unicode/UTF-8 support is insufficient,
e.g. if you need more CJK coverage, use the current Mule-UCS package.