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Mule-UCS(Universal enCoding System)
Written by Miyashita Hisashi <himi@bird.scphys.kyoto-u.ac.jp>

       About any question, problem, suggesions, and so on,
       please discuss at MULE ML <mule@m17n.org>
                      or MULE Japanese ML <mule-ja@m17n.org>.

       reviced on 1999/11/10.
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o ... License

  Mule-UCS is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option)
any later version.

  You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with Mule-UCS; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to
the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.

o ... Introduction

  Mule-UCS is an Emacs Lisp library to define encoding/decoding schemes by
rather simple translation rule.

  Emacs prepares encoding/decoding schemes in the following 2 mechanisms.

  (A) ... built-in ISO/IEC 2022 encoder/decoder
  (B) ... Code Conversion Language(CCL) engine

  Although (A) provides powerful encoding/decoding schemes as to ISO/IEC 2022,
we cannot utilize this for any other encoding schemes.
(B) is a simple register machine.  However, CCL is an arcane language
because it is infamous and misterious:-P.

  Mule-UCS provides flexible and complehensible encoding mechanism to Emacs.
Currently, Mule-UCS generates CCL program from the translation rule, but
in the future, Mule-UCS may support another conversion engine on Emacs.

  And I prepared 2 predefined conversions for Mule-UCS.

  (1) ... Unicode(UTF-7/8/16) support.
  (2) ... Big5 <-> CNS conversion support.

  These are included in this package.

  This version support Emacs20.4 or later; and Meadow1.10 or later.
If your Emacs have Mule 4.1(AOI) or later feature, you can utilize UTF-8/16
autodetection facility.

This manual corresponds to Mule-UCS 0.70 (TOJIIN).


o ... Installation.

  Since Mule-UCS is only an Emacs Lisp library, you have only to
byte-compile *.el files and install them to the location refered by
load-path.

  You can use mucs-comp.el at the top directory.
Enter the following command line:

  emacs -q --no-site-file -batch -l mucs-comp.el

If you use Meadow, enter the following:

  Meadow95(NT) -q --no-site-file -batch -l mucs-comp.el

And then, you will obtain byte-compiled emacs-lisp files.
At last, you should install lisp directory to your site-lisp directory.(*1)

Please read README.Unicode if you want to use Unicode.

o ... and then...

  If you want to configure your own encoding, please read another
  documentations.(Not yet written. sorry.)




