Re: patch to mitigate slow Mule-UCS loading in Emacs 21.2

[Dave Love <d.love@xxxxxxxx>]

Werner LEMBERG <wl@xxxxxxx> writes:

> It seems to me that further development of Mule-UCS has stopped
> completely; the latest Change is from 2001-08-31...

For what it's worth, I have some fixes accounting for post-Emacs 21.1
Mule changes to Lao and Indian.  I sent them to himi and they're free
to other good homes.

I also have changes to the Emacs 21.1 CCL engine which can be used to
make Mule-UCS redundant for editing CJK UTF-8 text.  Unfortunately,
they require patching Emacs's core.  It would need a little more
straightforward work to get it usable for CJK to the level of
Mule-UCS.  Apart from being a lot simpler -- I can understand it! --
extending the Emacs 21 coding system has the advantage of not
corrupting unrepresentable unicodes.  (Kudos to himi for Mule-UCS
anyway, of course.)