Revamp the Arabic support. Create greek-iso-8bit-with-esc, arabic-iso-8bit-with-esc. src/ChangeLog addition: 2008-08-05 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * mule-charset.c (complex_vars_of_mule_charset): Remove Vcharset_arabic_iso8859_7. * lisp.h: Remove Vcharset_arabic_iso8859_7. See commentary in lisp/mule/iso-with-esc.el for motivation. lisp/ChangeLog addition: 2008-08-05 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * mule/iso-with-esc.el (greek-iso-8bit-with-esc): (arabic-iso-8bit-with-esc): Add these two here. Move the implementation of the 'arabic-iso8859-6 character set here, with commentary on why that is reasonable. * mule/arabic.el (iso-8859-6): Add iso-8859-6, windows-1256 implementations using make-8-bit-coding-system. Remove our non-standard Mule character sets. * unicode.el (load-unicode-tables): Remove Arabic since it's no longer dumped. * mule/mule-msw-init-late.el: Remove Arabic. * mule/mule-category.el (predefined-category-list): Remove Arabic. etc/ChangeLog addition: 2008-08-05 Aidan Kehoe <kehoea@parhasard.net> * HELLO: Encode the Arabic using UTF-8 sequences, not ISO-8859-6.

--- a/lisp/mule/mule-win32-init.el	Sat Jul 26 13:50:27 2008 +0300
+++ b/lisp/mule/mule-win32-init.el	Tue Aug 05 08:37:17 2008 +0200
@@ -162,7 +162,8 @@
         ; ("ANSI"        1253 no-conversion "Windows 3.1 Greek")
        ("ANSI"        1254 no-conversion "Windows 3.1 Turkish")
        ("ANSI"        1255 no-conversion "Hebrew")
-       ("ANSI"        1256 no-conversion "Arabic")
+       ;; We implement these ourselves.
+       ; ("ANSI"        1256 no-conversion "Arabic")
        ("ANSI"        1257 no-conversion "Baltic")
        ("ANSI"        1258 no-conversion "VietNam")
        ;; #### Is this category right? I don't have Lunde to hand, and the