Description of problem: Files /usr/share/texmf/Changes.txt and /usr/share/texmf/README.txt pretend to be regular text files but actually they have somewhat surprising coding. For the first one emacs is able to figure out that this is a Japanese text coded in iso-2022-jp-unix. The other one baffles even emacs while 'file' claims "README.txt: ISO-8859 text" and this is clearly not the case. It seems to be some Japanese text as well. At least COPYRIGHT.jis in the same directory does not leave any doubts. :-) It is in iso-2022-jp-unix too while README.txt is using definitely some other encoding and it does not seem to be utf-8 as well. Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable): tetex-2.0.2-21
Michal, the README.txt is in euc-jp encoding, so to keep all the encodings apparent I converted all the Japanese files Changes.txt, README.txt to iso-2022-jp and renamed them to Changes.txt.jis and README.txt.jis. Thanks