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----README.Mule--------------------------------------------------------
1989.12.15: Nemacs Ver.3.2.1 (MUSUME-DOUJOUJI version)
1989.12.17: Nemacs Ver.3.2.1A (MUSUME-DOUJOUJI version with ANCHIN patch)
1989.12.22: Nemacs Ver.3.2.3 (YUMENO-AWAYUKI version)
1990.3.3:   Nemacs Ver.3.3.1 (HINAMATSURI version)
1990.6.6:   Nemacs Ver.3.3.2 (FUJIMUSUME version)
1992.3.4:   Mule Ver.0.9.0 Beta
1992.3.23:  Mule Ver.0.9.1 Beta
1992.4.6:   Mule Ver.0.9.2 Beta
1992.4.18:  Mule Ver.0.9.3 Beta
1992.5.28:  Mule Ver.0.9.4 Beta
1992.7.31:  Mule Ver.0.9.5 Beta
1992.8.5:   Mule Ver.0.9.5.1 Beta
1992.10.27: Mule Ver.0.9.6 Beta
1992.12.28: Mule Ver.0.9.7 Beta
1993.1.22:  Mule Ver.0.9.7.1 Beta
1993.6.14:  Mule Ver.0.9.8 Beta
1993.8.1:   Mule Ver.1.0 (KIRITSUBO)based on GNU Emacs 18.59
1994.2.8:   Mule Ver.1.1 (HAHAKIGI)based on GNU Emacs 18.59
1994.8.6:   Mule Ver.2.0 (UTSUSEMI)based on GNU Emacs 19.25

############################################################
0. INTRODUCTION
1. WHAT IS MULE
2. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES
3. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS
4. INSTALLATION
5. DOCUMENTS
6. DISTRIBUTION
7. NEWS GROUP AND MAILING LIST
8. MAIL SERVICE
9. MISC
############################################################

0. INTRODUCTION

This directory contains the distribution of Mule Ver.2.0.

Mule is free software distributed either as patches to GNU Emacs
(19.25) or as a complete tar file.  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 1, or (at
your option) any later version.

Mule is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT
ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or
FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the GNU General Public License
for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
along with GNU Emacs; see the file COPYING.  If not, write to the Free
Software Foundation, 675 Mass Ave, Cambridge, MA 02139, USA.


1. WHAT IS MULE?

Mule is a MULtilingual Enhancement to GNU Emacs.  It can
handle not only ASCII characters (7 bits) and ISO Latin-1 (8
bits), but also Japanese, Chinese, Korean (16 bits) coded in
the ISO2022 standard and its variants (e.g. EUC, Compound
Text).  For Chinese there is support for both GB and Big5.
In addition, Thai (based on TIS620) and Vietnamese (based on
VISCII and VSCII) are also supported.

A text buffer in Mule can contain a mixture of characters
from these languages.  To input any of these characters, you
can use various input methods provided by Mule itself.  In
addition, if you use Mule under some terminal emulator
(kterm, cxterm, or exterm), you can use any input methods
supported by the emulator.


2. SUPPORTED LANGUAGES

2.0 ENGLISH

Just type in. :-)

2.1 JAPANESE

It is strongly recommended to install Wnn4.108 or later.
EGG system bundled with Mule can communicate with jserver of
Wnn and provide you a very convenient Japanese inputting
method.  Read `EGG (mule)' node in Info for the usage of
this system.  You can run Mule as a client of X window, or
run it under some Japanese terminal (including such
emulators as kterm and exterm).  In the latter case, you can
use any inputting methods supported by the terminal.  Among
other inputting methods are:
EGG-SJ3, CANNA (bundled with Mule)
SKK, boiled-egg (in 'contrib' directory)

2.2 CHINESE

It is strongly recommended to install Wnn4.108 or later.
EGG system bundled with Mule can communicate with cserver of
cWnn and provide you a very convenient Chinese (GB)
inputting method.  Read `EGG (mule)' node in Info for the
usage of this system.  You can run Mule as a client of X
window, or run it under some Chinese terminal (including
such emulators as cxterm and exterm).  In the latter case,
you can use any inputting methods supported by the terminal.

QUAIL system (bundled with Mule) also provides several
inputting methods for:
GB: PINYIN, PINYIN_with_TONE, CCDOSPY, SW
Big5: PINYIN, ETZY, ZOZY
Read `Quail (mule)' node in Info for the usage of this system.

Subscribers of alt.chinese.text and alt.chinese.text.big
will find it very useful to use GNUS (news reader written in
Emacslisp) with gnusutil.el (bundled with Mule).  It
encodes/decodes HZ/zW encoding or Big5 to/from Mule internal
code automatically.

2.3 KOREAN

Korean inputting method is provided by QUAIL system (bundled
with Mule).  Read `Quail (mule)' node in Info for the usage
of this system.  The name of quail-package for Hangul is
`hangul' or `handle3'.  You can run Mule as a client of X
window, or run it under Hangul terminal or exterm.

2.4 EUROPEAN

Many kinds of European character inputting methods are
provided by QUAIL system (bundled with Mule).  For the
moment, QUAIL provides inputting methods for:
Latin1, Latin2,.. Latin5, Greek (ISO8859-7),
Hebrew (ISO8859-8), Cyrillic (ISO8859-5)

Read `Quail (mule)' node in Info for the usage of this
system.  As for Hebrew, right-to-left writing is supported.
Consult `R2L (mule)' in Info.

The `lisp/iso-*.el' files have not been modified yet for
this version of Mule.  Please use quail system instead.

2.5 THAI

Thai support based on TIS620 character set.  The inputting
method is also provided by QUAIL system (bundled with Mule).
Read `quail (mule)' node in Info for the usage of this
system.  The name of quail-package for Thai is `thai'.  A
free font for TIS620 (12x29 dots) is also available in
`fonts/ETL.tar.gz'.  To use the font with 12x24 ASCII font,
you should increase upper line-space by a command line
argument of "-lsp".  Specify "5+0" as the argument.

2.6 VIETNAMESE

Vietnamese support is based on two-table-VISCII methods,
which divide VISCII's code table into two, lower-case and
upper-case.  Mule can read/write any of VISCII, VIQR, VSCII.
The inputting method is also provided by QUAIL system
(bundled with Mule).  Read `Quail (mule)' node in Info for
the usage of this system.  The name of quail-package for
Vietnamese is `viet'.  For X, you can use both VISCII and
VSCII fonts.  A free font for VISCII is available in
`fonts/ETL.tar.gz' which is designed suitable for the use
with other ETL fonts.

2.7 ARABIC

Arabic and Persian are supported, but it uses special code
and fonts proper to Mule.  To read and write Arabic text,
you need three fonts: etl16-arabic0.bdf (Arabic digits),
etl16-arabic1.bdf (narrow characters) and etl16-arabic2.bdf
(wide characters).  These fonts are available in
`fonts/ETL.tar.gz' which is designed suitable for the use
with other ETL fonts.  See `doc/arabic.txt' for the usage of
arabic-mode.

2.8 IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet)

A subset of IPA is available in Mule.  You can use IPA
symbols by loading `lisp/quail/ipa.el'.  The name of the
quail package for IPA is `ipa'.  The file `fonts/ETL.tar.gz'
contains BDF files of IPA in 14, 16 and 24 dot.  For the
usage of quail, read `Quail (mule)' node in Info.

2.9 OTHER LANGUAGES

Ge'ez script (used in Ethiopic) will be supported in the
next realease.

We are willing to support Devanagali as soon as we get
enough information on how they are supported in the other
softwares.


3. SUPPORTED SYSTEMS

Basically, Mule runs on any systems (and machines) on which
GNU Emacs runs.  In addition, several systems (including
DOS, NT) are supported.  See etc/MACHINES.


4. INSTALLATION

To install Mule, see INSTALL.  Mule specific notices are surrounded by
lines <MULE> and </MULE>.


5. DOCUMENTS

For the moment, we have the following documents.
`etc' directory contains:
FAQ (for original GNU Emacs in English)
emacs.1 (man file for original GNU Emacs in English)
mule.1 (man file for Mule in English)
`info' directory contains:
emacs (for original GNU Emacs in English)
mule (for Mule in English)
mule-jp (for Mule in Japanese)
egg-jp (for EGG in Japanese)
canna-jp (for CANNA in Japanese)
You may also find various documents under `doc' directory.

The file NEWFEATURE of the top directory is also very
important.

Since many of these documents (including this file) were
written by a non-native speaker of English (it's me), you
may find many curious expressions.  Please correct them.  In
addition, we are looking for volunteers who translate the
documents to Chinese, Korean, and the other languages.

For Vietnamese, the Viet-Std Group has kindly translated
some of these documents.  Those are under the directory
`doc/viet'.


6. DISTRIBUTION

Mule is available by anonymous ftp from:

etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]:/pub/mule
Manager: Ken'ichi HANDA <handa@etl.go.jp>
ftp.mei.co.jp [132.182.49.2]:/public/free/gnu/emacs/Mule
Manager: Motohide Murakami <murakami@msr.mei.co.jp>
sh.wide.ad.jp [133.4.11.11]:/JAPAN/mule/mule-1.0
Manager: Akira KATO <kato@wide.sfc.keio.ac.jp>
ftp.funet.fi [128.214.6.100]:/pub/gnu/emacs/mule
Manager: Hannu Aronsson <haa@cs.hut.fi>
cs.huji.ac.il [132.65.16.10]:/pub/gnu/mule
Manager: The System Group <system@cs.huji.ac.il>

As for a mail service, read the section 8.

If you are accessing from out of Japan, please use the one
of the last three sites.  For Europeans, the fourth site is
probably the best.  Either ftp the complete tar file
(mule-2.0.tar.gz), *or* if you have an unmodified GNU Emacs
18.25 you can ftp just the patch file (diff-19.25-2.0.gz)
and apply that.  If you find a patch with version number
higher than 2.0, apply that also.

These directories contain several other useful files such as
X's fonts and contributed softwares.  See the file `00README'.

We are looking for more ftp sites.  If you can kindly
provide this service, please send mail to
mule-request@etl.go.jp.


7. NEWS GROUP AND MAILING LIST

Mule's main discussion is done on the newsgroup
fj.editor.mule in Japanese.  For those who can't subscribe
this newsgroup, we provide mail<->news gateway service.
Please send request of this service to mule-request@etl.go.jp.

For those who don't speak Japanese, we are running two
mailing lists:
mule@etl.go.jp (for general discussion)
mule-vn@etl.go.jp (for Vietnamese)
In both of them, main language is English, but you can
send/receive any multi lingual text supported by mule.

Please send requests of subscribing/unsubscribing to:
mule-request@etl.go.jp
saying which mailing list you want to join.
^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
We are willing to create mailing lists specific to the other
languages if there are many requests.

We are running one more mailing list to test new version of
Mule on various platforms before the official release:
mule-jp@etl.go.jp (main language: Japanese)
All mails to the above mailing lists are also sent to
the members of this mailing list.

Please don't send any mail to the above addresses before you
join the corresponding mailing list.


8. MAIL SERVICE

This system analyzes only the Subject field of a mail header.
The acceptable format of Subject is:
Subject: filename mail-address
send the specified file to <mail-address>,
The acceptable `filename' is one of the followings:
------------------------------------------------------------
diff-19.25-2.0 -- Patch for GNU Emacs 19.25, 36 files
diff-19.25-2.0.N -- Nth part of diff-19.25-2.0
   -- N should be one of 01, 02 .. 36
ETL.tar -- Fonts for Laint1,Cyrillic,Greek,Thai,Viet..., 3 files
Chinese.tar -- Fonts for Chinese-GB (16/24) , 20 files
Japanese.tar -- Fonts for Japanese-JIS (14/16/24), 25 files
Korean.tar -- Fonts for Korean-KSC (16/24), 18 files
READMEDIR.tar -- Several documents about Mule, 3 files
lisp.tar -- Useful ELISP libraries in contrib directory, 5 files
HELP -- This message
------------------------------------------------------------
For instance, a mail with 'Subject: Chinese.tar me@etl.go.jp'
will send Chinese fonts divided into 20 files to <me@etl.go.jp>.

The description alters on version up of Mule.  You'd better
check the correct format by requesting HELP because the
above list gets out of date sometimes.
------------------------------------------------------------

Anonymous UUCP service is also available for Japanese sites.
For more details, send email to gnuinfo@dit.co.jp.  The
subject and the body are just ignored.

Russian or Ukrainian sites should ask mail service to
postmaster@ts.kiev.ua, or
nib@ts.kiev.ua,
however, as far as I know, their system are not yet
automated.


9. MISC

9.1 PRINTING UTILITY

To print various characters supported by Mule, we provide a
program `m2ps' which will be installed automatically while
installing mule (just as etags, emacsclient).  `m2ps'
converts Mule's text to PostScript by using BDF files for
getting glyphs of characters.

9.2 CODE CONVERSION LIBRARY

Convert coding-system of a text.  Not yet supported.

9.2 CODE TRANSLATION LIBRARY

Translate character code of Chinese letters among GB, JIS,
KSC, Big5.  Not yet supported.


---
Ken'ichi HANDA Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN.  <handa@etl.go.jp>
Satoru TOMURA   Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN.  <tomura@etl.go.jp>
Mikiko NISIKIMI Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN.  <nisikimi@etl.go.jp>
Naoto TAKAHASHI Electrotechnical Lab., JAPAN.  <ntakahas@etl.go.jp>
