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** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
now look at the character after point.  If a face or faces are
specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
faces.

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** Limited support for charset unification has been added.
By default, Emacs now knows how to translate latin-N chars between their
charset and some other latin-N charset or unicode.  You can force a
more complete unification by calling (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1).
That maps all the Latin-N character sets into either Latin-1
or Unicode characters.

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** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).

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


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** There is a new Warnings facility; see the functions `warn'
and `display-warning'.

** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists

* For older news, see the file ONEWS

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   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
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** The commands M-x customize-face and M-x customize-face-other-window
now look at the character after point.  If a face or faces are
specified for that character, the commands by default customize those
faces.

** New language environments: French, Cyrillic-KOI8-U, Windows-1251,
Cyrillic-KOI8-T, Bulgarian, Belarusian, Ukrainian, UTF-8,
Windows-1255, Welsh, Latin-7, Lithuanian, Latvian.

** New input methods: latin-alt-postfix, latin-postfix, latin-prefix,
ukrainian-computer, belarusian, bulgarian-bds, russian-computer,
vietnamese-telex, lithuanian-numeric, lithuanian-keyboard,
latvian-keyboard, welsh, georgian, rfc1345, ucs, sgml,
bulgarian-phonetic, dutch.

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

** The utf-8 coding system has been enhanced.  Untranslatable utf-8
sequences (mostly representing CJK characters) are composed into
single quasi-characters.  By loading the library utf-8-subst, you can
arrange 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.

** New command `ucs-insert' inserts a character specified by its
Unicode.

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** Limited support for character unification has been added.
Emacs now knows how to translate Latin-N chars between their charset
and some other Latin-N charset or Unicode.  By default this
translation will happen automatically on encoding.  Quail input
methods use the translations to make the input conformant with the
encoding of the buffer in which it's being used where possible.

You can force a more complete unification with the user option
unify-8859-on-decoding-mode.  That maps all the Latin-N character sets
into Unicode characters (from the latin-iso8859-1 and
mule-unicode-0100-24ff charsets) on decoding.

** There is support for decoding Greek and Cyrillic characters into
either Unicode (the mule-unicode charsets) or the iso-8859 charsets,
when possible.  The latter are more space-efficient.  This is
controlled by user option utf-8-fragment-on-decoding.

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** The scrollbar under LessTif or Motif has a smoother drag-scrolling.
On the other hand, the size of the thumb does not represent the actual
amount of text shown any more (only a crude approximation of it).

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


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4

** New CCL functions `lookup-character' and `lookup-integer' access
hash tables defined by the Lisp function `define-translation-hash-table'.

** There is a new Warnings facility; see the functions `warn'
and `display-warning'.

** The functions all-completions and try-completion now accept lists

* For older news, see the file ONEWS

----------------------------------------------------------------------
Copyright information:

Copyright (C) 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002 Free Software Foundation, Inc.

   Permission is granted to anyone to make or distribute verbatim copies
   of this document as received, in any medium, provided that the
   copyright notice and this permission notice are preserved,
   thus giving the recipient permission to redistribute in turn.