[SOLVED] utf8 support for xemacs

[juergen_harms]

My old xemacs configuration does not know about utf-8. Google says that, to make xemacs correctly open and handle utf-8 encoded files, you need the function un-define, and that this function comes with mule.

There appears to be a choice between simply adding (1) the xemacs-mule-el package, or (2) to use an xemacs binary that is compiled with mule (replace the xemacs package by xemacs-mule). I have a large preference for (1), but this package throws error messages when xemacs is launched. Questions:

- did anybody encounter / work-around this problem?
- is a simpler alternative to make the standard xemacs package work with utf-8?

PS: I found some more information: the xemacs-mule-el package is not sufficient. I have now installed xemacs-mule - which is not an alternative to the normal xemacs binary, but a complement. Works great (needs 3 lines in your initialisation init.el:

(require 'un-define)
(set-coding-priority-list '(utf-8))
(set-coding-category-system 'utf-8 'utf-8)