[Python-Dev] utf-8 encoding in checkins?

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    >> 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:

 * make sure the ediff and vc packages recognize version-controlled files
   (It seems they do, but I haven't put them through their paces)

 * replace the GNU python.el with python-mode.el from the python-mode
   project (formerly distributed with Python, but now all grown up and moved
   away).

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