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+Fixme: The notes about Emacs 23 are quite incomplete.
+
+\f
+* Changes in Emacs 23.1
+
+** The Emacs character set is now a superset of Unicode.
+(It has about four times the code space, which should be plenty).
+
+The internal encoding used for buffers and strings is now
+Unicode-based and called `utf-8-emacs'. utf-8-emacs is backwards
+compatible with the UTF-8 encoding of Unicode. The `emacs-mule'
+coding system can still read and write data in the old internal
+encoding.
+
+There are still charsets which contain disjoint sets of characters
+where this is necessary or useful, especially for various Far Eastern
+sets which are problematic with Unicode.
+
+Since the internal encoding is also used by default for byte-compiled
+files -- i.e. the normal coding system for byte-compiled Lisp files is
+now utf-8-Emacs -- Lisp containing non-ASCII characters which is
+compiled by Emacs 23 can't be read by earlier versions of Emacs. Files
+compiled by Emacs 20, 21, or 22 are loaded correctly as emacs-mule
+(whether or not they contain multibyte characters), which makes loading
+them somewhat slower than Emacs 23-compiled files. Thus it may be worth
+recompiling existing .elc files which don't need to be shared with older
+Emacsen.
+
+** There are assorted new coding systems/aliases -- see
+M-x list-coding-systems.
+
+** New charset implementation with many new charsets.
+See M-x list-character-sets. New charsets can be defined conveniently
+as tables of unicodes.
+
+The dimension of a charset is now 0, 1, 2, or 3, and the size of each
+dimension is no longer limited to 94 or 96.
+
+Generic characters no longer exist.
+
+A dynamic charset priority list is used to infer the charset of
+unicodes for display &c.
+
+** The following facilities are obsolete:
+
+Minor modes: unify-8859-on-encoding-mode, unify-8859-on-decoding-mode
+
+\f
+* Lisp changes in Emacs 23.1
+
+map-char-table's behaviour has changed.
+
+New functions: characterp, max-char, map-charset-chars,
+define-charset-alias, primary-charset, set-primary-charset,
+unify-charset, clear-charset-maps, charset-priority-list,
+set-charset-priority, define-coding-system,
+define-coding-system-alias, coding-system-aliases, langinfo,
+string-to-multibyte.
+
+Changed functions: copy-sequence, decode-char, encode-char,
+set-fontset-font, new-fontset, modify-syntax-entry, define-charset,
+modify-category-entry
+
+Obsoleted: char-bytes, chars-in-region, set-coding-priority,
+char-valid-p
+
+\f
+* Incompatible Lisp changes
+
+Deleted functions: make-coding-system, register-char-codings,
+coding-system-spec
+
+** The character codes for characters from the
+eight-bit-control/eight-bit-graphic charsets aren't now in the range
+128-255.
+ \f
+ * About external Lisp packages
+
+ When you upgrade to Emacs 22 from a previous version, some older
+ versions of external Lisp packages are known to behave badly.
+ So in general, it is recommended that you upgrade to the latest
+ versions of any external Lisp packages that you are using.
+
+ You should also be aware that many Lisp packages have been included
+ with Emacs 22 (see the extensive list below), and you should remove
+ any older versions of these packages to ensure that the Emacs 22
+ version is used. You can use M-x list-load-path-shadows to find such
+ older packages.
+
+ Some specific packages which are known to cause problems are:
+
+ ** Semantic (used by CEDET, ECB, JDEE): upgrade to latest version.
+ ** cua.el, cua-mode.el: remove old versions.
+
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* Installation Changes in Emacs 22.1
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