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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
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Subject: Re: Garbled non-Ascii characters in ChangeLog files
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> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@ni.aist.go.jp>
> Date: Thu, 27 Mar 2008 08:10:48 +0900
> Cc: svenjoac@gmx.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> "ESC $ ( Q" is for a charset newly introduced in Emacs 23.
> So, Emacs 22 doesn't know how to decode it, and as Emacs 22
> has a limitation on the number of charsets, there's no way
> to support all of such escape sequence.

This means people should not edit Emacs 22.x ChangeLog files with
Emacs 23.  I don't know if we can expect people to remember that.