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On Wed, 25 Sep 2002, Charles Muller wrote:

> I am curious as to why I am able to see fonts in the HELLO file, but not in
> any of my other utf-8 encoded text files (unless I use TEI-Emacs).

You need to install Unicode fonts as explained in the file INSTALL in the 
Emacs distribution.

> I want
> to ask you if you are also able to see the Chinese in the attached text
> file.

Stock Emacs 21.2 doesn't support utf-8 encoded files if the characters 
are outside the Latin-1 region, IIRC.