>> > (unify-8859-on-decoding-mode 1)
>>
>> Good.
>>
>> > '(unify-8859-on-encoding-mode t nil (ucs-tables))
>>
>> Good as well. Except that the two do the same thing redundantly, so
> it's
>> better to get rid of one of them. I.e. if you like to configure your
> system
>> with Custom, then keep the second, else keep the first.
> They shouldn't do the same thing since one is for decoding and the other
> for encoding.
Oops, sorry, I wasn't careful enough.
> Anyway I think I'll stick with Custom since it's probably the less error
> prone method. Apparently unify on encoding is safe but the other one can
> cause information loss.
Indeed, but only in "unusual" situations (e.g. if you use encodings like
iso-2022). And in your case, unification on decoding is exactly what you
need (provided you're not bumping into a bug that prevents it from doing
its job, of course).
> I am using the NT build and am not comfortable compiling from source. I
> have cygwin running under MS win but have never tried to build anything
> with gcc.
I think cygwin has a precompiled cygwin version of the CVS code.
Stefan
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