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+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
+1994.11.2:  Mule Ver.2.1 (YUUGAO)	based on GNU Emacs 19.27
+1994.12.28: Mule Ver.2.2 (WAKAMURASAKI)	based on GNU Emacs 19.28
+1995.7.24:  Mule Ver.2.3 (SUETSUMUHANA)	based on GNU Emacs 19.28
+############################################################
+	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.2.3.
+Mule is free software distributed either as patches to GNU Emacs
+(19.28) 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 2, 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), Vietnamese (based on
+VISCII and VSCII), Arabic, and Ethiopic 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, mterm, 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 mterm 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, mlh, tcode (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 mterm 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
+Emacs lisp) 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 mterm 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.  Read `Mule/Languages/Arabic Script
+Languages' node in Info 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 ETHIOPIC
+Ge'ez script (used in Ethiopic) is supported by the latest
+release.  Use Quail package `ethio' for inputting.
+2.10 OTHER LANGUAGES
+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)
+	FAQ-NEW (new FAQ for original GNU Emacs in English)
+	FAQ-Mule (for Mule specific items in English)
+	FAQ-Mule.jp, FAQ-Mule.kr, FAQ-Mule.th
+	emacs.1 (man file for original GNU Emacs in English)
+	mule.1 (man file for Mule in English)
+	m2ps.1 (man file for m2ps -- Mule's text to PostScritp converter)
+	coco.1 (man file for coco -- Code converter)
+`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', but not updated..
+6. DISTRIBUTION
+Mule is available by anonymous ftp from:
+Japanese sites:
+	etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]:/pub/mule
+		Manager: Ken'ichi HANDA <handa@etl.go.jp>
+	ftp.mei.co.jp [202.13.88.131]: /archive/free/gnu/emacs/Mule
+		Manager: Motohide Murakami <murakami@msr.mei.co.jp>
+	ftp.iij.ad.jp [192.244.176.50]:/pub/misc/mule
+		Manager: Takamichi MIYOSHI <miyoshi@iij.ad.jp>
+U.S. sites:
+	ftp.cs.buffalo.edu [128.205.32.9]:/pub/mule
+		Manager: Rafhael Cedeno <cedeno@cs.Buffalo.EDU>
+Other foreign sites:
+	sh.wide.ad.jp [133.4.11.11]:/JAPAN/mule
+		Manager: Akira KATO <kato@wide.ad.jp>
+	ftp.funet.fi [128.214.248.6]:/index/mule
+		Manager: Hannu Aronsson <haa@ftp.funet.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.
+Either ftp the complete tar file (mule-2.3.tar.gz), *or* if
+you have an unmodified GNU Emacs 19.28 you can ftp just the
+patch file (diff-19.28-2.3.gz) and apply that.  If you find
+a patch with version number higher than 2.3, 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 multilingual text supported by mule.
+Before sending mails to the above addresses, you should join
+the corresponding mailing list.  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.
+8. MAIL SERVICE
+You can get Mule by sending request to:
+	mule-by-mail@etl.go.jp
+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-19.28-2.3 -- Patch for GNU Emacs 19.28, 36 files
+	diff-19.28-2.3.N -- Nth part of diff-19.28-2.3
+			   -- N should be one of 01, 02 .. 36
+	patch-2.2.1 -- The 1st patch for Mule Ver.2.2.
+	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.
+------------------------------------------------------------
+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 is 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 (*internal* coding-system) to
+PostScript by using BDF files for getting glyphs of
+characters.  For more detail, try "man m2ps".  If you want
+to print a file of other coding-system (e.g. *junet*),
+please use `any2ps' which is a front-end of `coco' and
+`m2ps' and can handle a text of any coding-system.  Read the
+first two lines of `any2ps' for the usage.
+9.2 CODE CONVERSION LIBRARY
+To convert any codes supported by Mule, we provide a program
+`coco' which will be installed automatically while
+installing mule (just as etags, emacsclient).  For more
+detail, try "man coco".
+9.2 CODE TRANSLATION LIBRARY
+Translate character code of Chinese letters among GB, JIS,
+KSC, Big5, CNS.  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>

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