Tatsuya> Debconf interface cannot help non-admin users. The current Tatsuya> answer is `/usr/bin/env DEB_MULEUCS_UNICODE=off emacs'. See also Tatsuya> `/usr/share/doc/mule-ucs/README.Debian'.
Thanks. Emacs now starts 6 times faster for me. $ time emacs -q -eval '(kill-emacs)' real 0m6.523s user 0m6.290s sys 0m0.110s $ time DEB_MULEUCS_UNICODE=off emacs -q -eval '(kill-emacs)' real 0m0.919s user 0m0.750s sys 0m0.060s I will export DEB_MULEUCS_UNICODE=off in .bash_profile.