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(This is exactly why we need more people banging on this code.)

Samuel Tardieu writes:

> I haven't loaded the Canna library, and my menubar only displays
> "ISO8".

Canna is used only for inputting characters.  ISO8 in the default
language environment stands for ISO-2022-INT-8.

> How is it possible that this character which obviously doesn't
> belong to the ISO-8859-1 charset is displayed on my screen ?

Select `Options -> Language Environment -> European' from the menubar
if you wish.  This has the unfortunate property of not being too smart
about recognizing things like the `mule-doc/demo' properly.  It is
clear that we need to do more work in this area.

William M Perry writes:

> This happened to me with W3 the other day.

This is the phantom charset conversion that has bit me in Gnus (one of
my .overview files was converted to ISO2022-INT-7) and reported by
Adrian Aichner on this list last week.

Joe Nuspl writes:

> I see this a lot.  I will be reading news with German or Russian
> text in the signatures and XEmacs with try to instantiate a Korean
> font.

Selection of a charset is similar to selection of a major mode based
on clues in the file and file extension.  See lisp/mule/mule-files.el
for details.

You may not change the charset (displayed on the modeline in the lower
left side) after a file has been loaded, but you may preselect a
charset by using the universal argument to find-file `C-u C-x C-f'.

All of this needs to get into the FAQ prior to release.
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