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Subject: Re: status of utf-8.el, etc [Re: Several serious problems]
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> (1-1) unify-8859-on-encoding-mode can't be turned off safely.

I still haven't heard of any reason why it should ever be turned off anyway.
I think we should simply get rid of this minor-mode.

> (2-1) As utf-8-fragment-on-decoding and utf-8-translate-cjk are
> also applicable to utf-16, I cut off "-8" from them.

Why not use the `ucs-' prefix ?


	Stefan