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	    Mule Beta Release Announcement

We have started beta testing Mule (MULtilingual Enhancement
to GNU Emacs) and are now trying to find "rugged" users who
are familiar with both GNU Emacs and one of the languages
that Mule can support.

Mule is a modified version of GNU Emacs 18.58, it is
distributed as a complete tar file or as a patch to 18.58.
Mule can support a larger set of characters sets, such as
Japanese, Chinese, Korean, and Europeans.

Mule can handle all these languages in the *same* buffer,
meaning that you can mix text from different languages.
(Neat if you are translating from one language to another.)

Mule supports the following inputting methods:
ENGLISH: Just type in. :-)
JAPANESE: You have plenty of choises.
	EGG, EGG-SJ3, CANNA (these are bundled with Mule),
	SKK, boiled-egg (these are in 'contrib' directory).
CHINESE, KOREAN, EUROPEAN:
	Please use 'quail' system bundled with Mule.

New input methods should not be that hard to write.  If you
run Mule under a specilized terminal emulator (such as
exterm or cxterm) which supports an input method you can use
that.

As for Chinese handling, please look into hz2gb.el in
contrib/lisp.tar.Z.  This allows quite convenient way to
read and post articles of newsgroup alt.chinese.text for a
GNUS user.

As for fonts of European characters, Mr. Takahashi
contributed 14dots and 24dots fonts for Latin1,2,3,4,5,
Greek and Cyrillic.  Those fonts are in fonts/ETL.tar.Z.

Mule is available by anonymous ftp from:

	etlport.etl.go.jp [192.31.197.99]:/pub/mule
	sh.wide.ad.jp [133.4.11.11]:/JAPAN/mule

If you are accessing from out of Japan, please use the
latter site, which is faster.  Either ftp the complete tar
file, *or* if you have an unmodified GNU Emacs 18.58 you can
ftp just the patch file diff-18.58-0.9.5 and apply that.

Please send me a mail when you ftp Mule.  I'll put your name
in Mule's mailing list.  Please gather together and write
code for free input methods, or sign up to port an existing
input method.

Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@etl.go.jp