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+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.2.3     -- 95.7.24
+
+1. This version is still based on GNU Emacs 18.28, and
+changed are mainly for bug fixes except for the following
+topic.
+
+2. By the cooperation with Omron Software, we can include a
+feature to use jserver of Wnn6 as a kana-kanji conversion
+server.  See INSTALL for more detail.  General information
+about Wnn6 is avairable at:
+	http://www-sp.omronsoft.co.jp/
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.2.2     -- 94.12.28
+
+1. This version is based on GNU Emacs 19.28 and changes are
+mainly for bug fixes.
+
+2. `m2ps' is updated and can now handle any of text coded in
+*internal*.
+
+3. New command `coco' is available for code conversion among
+any of coding-systems supported by Mule.  `coco' package
+announced in the previous version is obsolete.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.2.1     -- 94.10.29
+
+1. The way to specify fontset gets easy.  See mule/fonts
+section of info for more detail.
+
+2. Improvement of Quail
+
+2.1 Works also in minibuffer.  The guidance is shown in a
+window which pops up at the bottom of screen.
+
+2.2 Quail packages can be compiled.  A compiled package
+is load very quickly.
+
+2.3 Cxterm's tit format to quail-package converter is
+provided in lisp/quail/tit.el.  All quail packages for
+chinese are updated.
+
+3. Arabic support improved.
+
+4. Ethiopic support starts.
+
+5. Direct input of Big5.  Now `set-keyboard-coding-system'
+accepts '*big5*.
+
+6. M-x mule-diag shows you useful diagnosis about the
+current state of your running mule.
+
+7. Multilingual Xmenu support.
+
+8. cocolib package is distributed under `contrib' of Mule's ftp directory
+
+This package contains a generic code conversion program.  In
+addition, the program `any2ps' in this package is a
+convenient front-end of `m2ps'.  Since `any2ps' accepts any
+coding-system, you don't have to save text in *internal*
+every time before using m2ps.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.2.0     -- 94.8.6
+
+1. Now Mule is based on GNU Emacs 19 (.25)
+
+Of course, Mule supports GNU Emacs 19's various new
+features.
+
+2. You can use `face' of Emacs19 even on terminals.
+
+By `configure'ing Mule with the argument `--terminal-face',
+such faces as underline and highlight get effective even
+when you run Mule on terminal (i.e. -nw).
+
+3. Thai character-set gets official
+
+Since TIS620 has been registered in ISO, Mule also handles
+it as an official character set.  The new leading-char for
+TIS620 (lc-thai) is 0x85.  If you wrote Thai text with
+coding-system *junet*, the escape sequence used for Thai
+characters is not the same as that of previous version of
+Mule.  But, you can still read a Thai text file of old
+escape sequence.
+
+4. Experimental support of Arabic
+
+When you load arabic.el, you can write Arabic text.
+
+5. Stop supporting BIG5-HKU
+
+Since HKU version of BIG5 is just an error version, Mule
+stops supporting it.
+
+6. CCL is completely changed
+
+To improve speed and easiness of writing, CCL syntax is
+changed completely.  Read `CCL (mule)' node in Info for more 
+detail.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.1.1     -- 94.2.10
+
+1. CRLF is now handled automatically.
+
+By the big change in the structure of coding-system, we now
+can automatically detect how end-of-line of a text is
+encoded and choose an appropriate coding-system for a new
+buffer.  Please read doc/coding.txt for more information.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.0.9.8   -- 93.6.20
+
+1. CRLF is not handled automatically.
+
+The facility of automatic detection of EOL type (LF, or
+CRLF) is deleteted because:
+	o causes hard problem in process I/O
+	o not necessary if code-priority is defined appropriately
+Instead, on defining coding-system, you can specify the EOL
+type as one of LF (Unix), CRLF (DOS), CR (Mac).
+
+2. Vietnamese support
+
+Now you can read/write files encoded in VISCII, VIQR, VSCII.
+Vietnamese inputting method is also supported by QUAIL.
+
+3. More rich support for right-to-left writing language
+
+For right-to-left characters, we have added two features:
+	o r2l-double-cursor (Emacslisp variable)
+		When cursor is in between right-to-left char
+		and left-to-right (normal) char, you can see
+		insertion points for both types of character
+		by two cursors.
+	o highlight-reverse-direction (Emacslisp variable)
+		A character whose direction is different
+		from that of the current buffer is
+		highlighted by gray-color (or background mesh).
+Both mode is on by default.  Try these while you are
+writing, for instance, Hebrew.
+
+In addition, ISO6429's escape sequence for specifying
+directionality is used on I/O.
+
+3. CCL -- Code Conversion Language
+
+Now Mule has a interpreter of CCL (simple stack language for
+code-conversion) for non-ISO2022 coding-system.  It's much
+faster than doing the same thing by Emacslisp.  CCL can also
+be used to map a character code to that of a font while
+displaying on X.
+
+4. Quail packages for Chinese get more combenient
+
+Now it works much similar as cxterm's inputting methods with
+the features of showing candidates dynamically and selecting
+candidate by ".," and digits.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.0.9.7.1   -- 93.1.22
+
+1. Usage of EGG (TAKANA)
+
+Although EGG can communicate with both jserver and cserver,
+using EGG for both Japanese and Chinese was not convenient
+in the previous version.  Now the environment is improved.
+But please note that the previous command set-wnn-host-name
+is changed to set-jserver-host-name and
+set-cserver-host-name.
+
+2. Thai inputting methods
+
+Quail-package of the name 'thai' is ninproved.  You can
+enter a composite character easily.  For instance, in
+quail-mode for Thai, typing CVT (where C:consonant
+V:upper-vowel, T:tone-mark) will produce a character
+something like:
+
+	  T
+	  V
+	__C__  <-- base line
+
+Though, we still have a problem in deleting only T or V.
+
+3. Automatic handling of CRLF at end of line
+
+Mule's automatic coding-system detection mechanism can now
+detect the type of end of line.  In the world of DOS, the
+end-of-line mark is the sequence of CR and LF.  When mule
+reads such a file, it detects the sequence and set an
+appropriate coding-system for the file.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.0.9.7   -- 92.12.26
+
+1. Composite character
+
+You can compose any characters (upto 16 chars) into one
+composite character, in that case, all the characters are
+displayed on the same column and treated as one character.
+
+But!!, for the moment, vertical split of window is not
+supported for composite character.  If you split window
+vartically while showing composite characters, I don't no
+what happens. :-(
+
+'m2ps' is also updated to support composite character.
+
+
+2. Thai character support
+
+By utilizing composite character, now you can treat Thai
+character on X window.  See doc/demo for example.
+lisp/quail-thai.el provides input method of Thai, the
+program is not yet completed.  We are waiting a contribution
+by who has knowledge of Thai writing.
+
+
+3. Right-to-left displaying
+
+Each character set has new attribute 'display-direction'.
+Although, most of character sets have 'left-to-right'
+feature, Hebrew and Arabic character sets have
+'right-to-left' feature.  Characters who have this feature
+are displayed from right to left on the screen.  See
+doc/demo and try to move cursor around Hebrew letters.
+
+But!!! (again), the support is yet quite buggy.  You may
+find many many inconveniences.
+
+
+4. Coding-system is now a symbol
+
+You may not find any change on user-interface, but emacslisp
+programers will find that handling coding-system gets much
+easier.
+
+
+############################################################
+List of new features in Mule Ver.0.9.6   -- 92.10.26
+
+1. EGG requires Wnn4.108.
+
+You need Wnn4.108 to compile Mule with '#define EGG'.
+
+
+2. TAKANA of EGG provides Chinese inputting facility.
+
+Now, TAKANA can communicate with cserver.  All setups for it
+is done in lisp/chinese.el.  To use this facility, you also
+need SiSheng font (available in fonts/ETL.tar.Z or in
+fonts/SISHENG.tar.Z).  The default setting uses the font in
+ETL.tar.Z.
+
+
+3. QUAIL system updated.
+
+You must type 'C-]' (not 'C-\') to startup quail.
+'quail-latin.el' supports Latin-2,3,4,5 inputting.
+
+
+4. Support for new machines and systems
+
+NeXT, PFU-A-Family, 386BSD, Linux, VMS, and MS-DOS are
+supported.
+
+
+5. Required PURESIZE is reduced a little.
+
+By autoloading some libraries.