# HG changeset patch
# User Dave Love <fx@gnu.org>
# Date 1040330832 0
# Node ID d684f5bc91b86f903183eb5c16430f11d8d0b81d
# Parent  3b18ddd398f8c7a69a431ec7c312dd79f1f02915
keyboard-coding-system, optimize-char-coding-system-table

diff -r 3b18ddd398f8 -r d684f5bc91b8 etc/NEWS
--- a/etc/NEWS	Thu Dec 19 16:26:29 2002 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Thu Dec 19 20:47:12 2002 +0000
@@ -653,14 +653,14 @@
 mouse-wheel-inhibit-click-time variables.
 
 +++
-** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on
-your current locale settings.  If it turns out that your terminal
-does not support the encoding implied by your locale (for example,
-it inserts non-ASCII chars if you hit M-i), you will need to add
-
-	(set-keyboard-coding-system nil)
-
-to your .emacs to revert to the old behavior.
+** The keyboard-coding-system is now automatically set based on your
+current locale settings if you are not using a window system.  This
+may mean that the META key doesn't work but generates non-ASCII
+characters instead, depending on how the terminal (or terminal
+emulator) works.  Use `set-keyboard-coding-system' (or customize
+keyboard-coding-system) if you prefer META to work (the old default)
+or if the locale doesn't describe the character set actually generated
+by the keyboard.  See Info node `Single-Byte Character Support'.
 
 +++
 ** Emacs now reads the standard abbrevs file ~/.abbrev_defs
@@ -1121,6 +1121,9 @@
 
 * Lisp Changes in Emacs 21.4
 
+** New function `optimize-char-coding-system-table' can be called
+after making changes to `char-coding-system-table'.
+
 ** Byte compiler changes:
 
 *** `(featurep 'xemacs)' is treated by the compiler as nil.  This