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Kenichi Handa <handa@etl.go.jp> writes:

> But, is it a big problem?  Even in Emacs 21, iso-2022 files
> may be changed just by reading and writing (e.g. by removing
> redundant escape sequences).

RMS complained about even chaneglogs getting changed, but it will
certainly screw various Emacs 21 lisp/{international,language} files.

> The most frustrating redisplay bug of emacs-unicode I notice
> is that cursor sometimes disappear,

It misses entire chunks of text for me, particularly after pasting an
sexp in, I think.  I've been quite confused trying to use it.