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+;;; english.el --- English support
+
+;; Copyright (C) 1997 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1997 Electrotechnical Laboratory, JAPAN.
+
+;; Keywords: multibyte character, character set, syntax, category
+
+;; This file is part of GNU Emacs.
+
+;; GNU Emacs 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.
+
+;; GNU Emacs 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, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330,
+;; Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.
+
+;;; Commentary:
+
+;; We need nothing special to support English on Emacs.  Selecting
+;; English as a language environment is one of the ways to reset
+;; various multilingual environment to the original settting.
+
+;;; Code
+
+(defun setup-english-environment ()
+  "Reset multilingual environment of Emacs to the default status.
+The default status is as follows.
+
+  The default value of enable-multibyte-characters is t.
+
+  The default value of buffer-file-coding-system is iso-8859-1.
+  The coding system for terminal output is nil.
+  The coding system for keyboard input is nil.
+
+  The order of priorities of coding categories and the coding system
+  bound to each category are as follows
+	coding category			coding system
+	--------------------------------------------------
+	coding-category-iso-7		iso-2022-7
+	coding-category-iso-8-2		iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-iso-8-1		iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-iso-else	iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-internal 	internal
+	coding-category-binary		no-conversion
+	coding-category-sjis		sjis
+	coding-category-big5		big5
+"
+  (interactive)
+  (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters t)
+  (if (local-variable-p 'enable-multibyte-characters)
+      (setq enable-multibyte-characters t))
+
+  (setq coding-category-internal	'internal
+	coding-category-iso-7		'iso-2022-7
+	coding-category-iso-8-1		'iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-iso-8-2		'iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-iso-else	'iso-8859-1
+	coding-category-sjis		'sjis
+	coding-category-big5		'big5
+	coding-category-binary		'no-conversion)
+
+  (set-coding-priority
+   '(coding-category-iso-7
+     coding-category-iso-8-2
+     coding-category-iso-8-1
+     coding-category-iso-else
+     coding-category-internal 
+     coding-category-binary
+     coding-category-sjis
+     coding-category-big5))
+
+  (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'iso-8859-1)
+  (set-terminal-coding-system nil)
+  (set-keyboard-coding-system nil)
+
+  (setq sendmail-coding-system nil
+	rmail-file-coding-system nil)
+  )
+
+(defun describe-english-support ()
+  "Describe how Emacs support English."
+  (interactive)
+  (describe-language-support-internal "English"))
+
+(set-language-info-alist
+ "English" '((setup-function . setup-english-environment)
+	     (describe-function . describe-english-support)
+	     (tutorial . "TUTORIAL")
+	     (charset . (ascii))
+	     (sample-text . "Hello!, Hi!, How are you?")
+	     (documentation . "\
+There's nothing special you should care to handle English in Emacs.
+You can use English both with enable-multibyte-characters t and nil.")
+	     ))
+
+(register-input-method "English"
+		       '("quail-dvorak" quail-use-package "quail/latin"))
+
+;;; english.el ends here