# HG changeset patch
# User Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
# Date 893549616 0
# Node ID 9c04115476e6e5a09a2f93cf01664fcdaeb2cb26
# Parent  915b4091ede17f4c745b5b61597cf8683f5dcc95
(setup-english-environment): Don't set default-enable-multibyte-characters.

diff -r 915b4091ede1 -r 9c04115476e6 lisp/language/english.el
--- a/lisp/language/english.el	Sat Apr 25 23:33:59 1998 +0000
+++ b/lisp/language/english.el	Sun Apr 26 00:13:36 1998 +0000
@@ -32,9 +32,10 @@
 
 (defun setup-english-environment ()
   "Reset multilingual environment of Emacs to the default status.
-The default status is as follows.
+This function is called by all the `setup-function's for
+the various supported language environments.
 
-  The default value of enable-multibyte-characters is t.
+The default status is as follows:
 
   The default value of buffer-file-coding-system is nil.
   The coding system for terminal output is nil.
@@ -57,7 +58,8 @@
 	coding-category-binarry		no-conversion
 "
   (interactive)
-  (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters t)
+  ;; This function formerly set default-enable-multibyte-characters to t,
+  ;; but that is incorrect.  It should not alter the unibyte/multibyte choice.
 
   (setq coding-category-iso-7-tight	'iso-2022-jp
 	coding-category-iso-7		'iso-2022-7bit