Re: Emacs utf-8 coding system

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

John Russell <jorussel@cisco.com> writes:

> "Eli Zaretskii" <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>
>>> From: Thomas Beresford <number18@spymac.com>
>>> Date: Fri, 24 Dec 2004 05:37:29 -0700
>>> 
>>> I wanted to know how can I install the utf-8 coding system in my
>>> emacs 20.7.2, because when I use `M-x list-coding-systems' I don't
>>> get the utf-8 listed here.
>>
>> There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x.  Please upgrade to
>> Emacs 21.3, the latest version, to get that support.
>
> I have been trying to read .reg files which contain exports of parts
> of a windows registry in emacs, and all I get is junk.  I've been
> told that this is because the registry is output in unicode.
> Notepad can read these and so can vim on linux.  Is there any way I
> can view these types of files in emacs? Thanks.

There was no support for UTF-8 in Emacs 20.x.  Please upgrade to Emacs
21.4, the latest version, to get that support.

I doubt that 5-year old versions of vim can read the files in UTF-8,
either.  Emacs 20.7 is just so last-millennium.

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