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Fredrik Bulow <kaliumfredrik@gmail.com> writes:
> I currently use Emacs 21 which appears to lack support for the UTF-8
> text encoding system. Unfortunately UTF support is a feature I really
> need since my mother tongue is one of those weird non-English
> languages. How do I make emacs support UTF?


Just put this in your ~/.emacs:

(setq default-process-coding-system  (cons 'mule-utf-8 'mule-utf-8))

There are also some other *coding-system variables you can customize
independently, and have a look at modify-coding-system-alist.

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