[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins? (original) (raw)

skip at pobox.com skip at pobox.com
Tue Mar 29 18:17:00 CEST 2011


>> I guess I have my work cut out for me.  It appears my preferred mail
>> reader, VM, is not supported out-of-the-box by GNU Emacs (they still
>> use Rmail and Babyl for some reason), and I'm not sure the investment
>> trying to get XEmacs built with MULE is worth the effort.

Anders> Use a 21.5 beta of XEmacs instead of 21.4, 21.5 deals with utf-8
Anders> quite well.

Thanks for the various responses, both public and private. In part because Barry made the leap back from XEmacs to GNU Emacs (and I trust Barry in all things Emacs), I decided to dip my toe back into the GNU water. I needed to install a recent version of VM, but it does do utf-8, so my original problem is solved. In response to Anders, I had tried 21.5b28 awhile ago but backed off from it. I no longer recall why.

My only issues now are:

Skip



More information about the Python-Dev mailing list