Re: Unicode/Mule (Re: null-device)

[Richard Stallman]

    That's why your statement that `mule has to go away first' seems
    nonsensical to me.  Of course, _part_ of mule must go -- the part that's
    being replaced, and any other parts that are too closely dependent on
    that representation -- but to say _all_ of mule must go is ignorant of
    what mule is.  [of course, it's possible that the majority of people use
    the word `mule' in a much more narrow sense, to refer specifically to
    the current internal encoding, in which case I'll happily admit to being
    wrong!]

However few or many they are, you are right and they are wrong.