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diff --git a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi index c8b4b40416f..d6c8477b1c6 100644 --- a/doc/emacs/glossary.texi +++ b/doc/emacs/glossary.texi @@ -953,9 +953,15 @@ another. The usual way to move text is by killing (q.v.@:) it and then yanking (q.v.@:) it. @xref{Killing}. @item MULE -MULE refers to the Emacs features for editing multilingual -non-@acronym{ASCII} text using multibyte characters (q.v.). -@xref{International}. +@cindex MULE +Prior to Emacs 23, @acronym{MULE} was the name of a software package +which provided a @dfn{MULtilingual Enhancement} to Emacs, by adding +support for multiple character sets (q.v.). @acronym{MULE} was later +integrated into Emacs, and much of it was replaced when Emacs gained +internal Unicode support in version 23. + +Some parts of Emacs that deal with character set support still use the +@acronym{MULE} name. @xref{International}. @item Multibyte Character A multibyte character is a character that takes up several bytes in a |