Re: Emacs and UTF-8 locale

[Dave Love]

>>>>> Eli Zaretskii writes:

 > this was disabled previously because stock Emacs 21.1 lacked some
 > user-level features which are required for a decent support of
 > UTF-8 locales.

It lacked _any_ built-in support for utf-8 at the time the locale work
was done.  That's why eggert special-cased it, according to the
commentary and what I recall in mail.

I didn't hear a good reason for maintaining the exclusion in 21.1.