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Mention the new language envrironments Bengali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Sinhala. Mention the removal of features devanagari, devan-util, kannada, knd-util, malayalam, mlm-util, tamil, and tml-util.

92071:4d84175c75e8

dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.

A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
characters for display.

** There are new Chinese-GBK, Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, and TaiViet language
environments.

** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line option
--parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See

`byte-compile-enable-warning.'

** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.
Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.

** The feature `devan-util' is removed, and the file devan-util.el
providing the feature is removed.  Accordingly the following functions
and variables are removed:
  devanagari-consonant, devanagari-composable-pattern,
  devanagari-compose-region, devanagari-compose-string,
  devanagari-post-read-conversion, devanagari-regexp-of-hashtbl-keys,
  devanagari-composition-function, dev-char-glyph,
  dev-char-glyph-hash, dev-char-glyph-regexp, dev-glyph-glyph,
  dev-glyph-glyph-hash, dev-glyph-glyph-regexp, dev-glyph-glyph-2,
  dev-glyph-glyph-2-hash, dev-glyph-glyph-2-regexp, dev-charseq,
  dev-glyph-cvn, dev-glyph-space, dev-glyph-right-modifier,
  dev-glyph-right-modifier-regexp, dev-glyph-left-matra,
  dev-glyph-top-matra, dev-glyph-bottom-modifier, dev-glyph-order,
  devanagari-compose-syllable-string, devanagari-compose-syllable-region
These were for displaying Devanagari text with a specific kind of font
in Emacs 22, and not necessary anymore because of OpenType font
support.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook.

92072:cfdc718703dc

dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.

A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
characters for display.

** There are new Chinese-GBK, Chinese-GB18030, Khmer, Bengali,
Punjabi, Gujarati, Oriya, Telugu, Sinhala, and TaiViet language
environments.

** Emacs now supports the XEmbed specification.
You can embed Emacs in another application on X11.  The new command line option
--parent-id is used to pass the parent window id to Emacs.  See

`byte-compile-enable-warning.'

** `mode-name' is no longer guaranteed to be a string.
Use `(format-mode-line mode-name)' to ensure a string value.

** The feature `devanagari' and `devan-util' were removed, and all
devanagari-* and dev-* functions and variables were removed too.  They
were for displaying Devanagari script with a specific kind of font in
Emacs 22, and not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.

** The feature `kannada' and `knd-util' were removed, and all
kannada-* and knd-* functions and variables are removed too.  They
were for displaying Kannada script with a specific kind of font in
Emacs 22, and not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.

** The feature `malayalam' and `mlm-util' are removed, and all
malayalam-* and mlm-* functions and variables are removed too.  They
were for displaying Malayalam script with a specific kind of font in
Emacs 22, and not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.

** The feature `tamil' and `tml-util' are removed, and all tamil-* and
tml-* functions and variables are removed too.  They were for
displaying Tamil script with a specific kind of font in Emacs 22, and
not necessary anymore because of OpenType font support.


* Lisp Changes in Emacs 23.1

** clone-indirect-buffer now runs the clone-indirect-buffer-hook.