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David said:
|>> It *may* be reasonable to switch character sets from within (a
|> successor to) TeX, rather than from the command line, or having
|> different sets built into different executables, but such extra
|> functionality should *not* be a comment, rather it should be a new
|> primitive
|> \characterset=

This particular part of the discussion has already happened once, on
NTS-L.  David (quite rightly ;-) agrees with what I said in that
context, yea, these many moons ago.

Robin