Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> Date: Mon, 08 May 2006 18:29:13 -0400
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> We seem to be talking about two variables here:
> unify-8859-on-decoding-mode and utf-fragment-on-decoding.  Are there
> any others involved?
> 
> I do not know what those variables mean.  Do they affect the
> choice of coding system?  Or do they take effect by altering
> the meaning of a given coding system?

They select the target character set.  When Emacs decodes text with
Latin or Cyrillic or Greek characters, it could produce either Unicode
charset or one of the ISO 8859 charsets.  These variables control
that.