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Charles Muller <acmuller@gol.com> writes:
> Sorry to mention TEI-Emacs again, but its superior ability to identify
> document encodings (especially Unicode) is one of things that I
> like best about it.

I'm sure, but saying `download an entirely new version of emacs' is a
rather heavyweight solution.

If they've hacked emacs to do a better job of this, how did they do it?
Did they ever try to submit their changes back to emacs?

-Miles
-- 
Would you like fries with that?