Re: [PATCH 21.5] Reading and writing abbrev file under MULE

[email protected] (Nickolay Pakoulin) writes:

> Default coding system does not help because abbreviations might use
> multiple charsets.  Fancy a user, who uses abbreviations for writing
> in Russian and French.  BUT the language environment is one of
> cyrillics, because the user works with Russian mostly.

Hmm.  Mule has the (mis)feature of saving buffers with multiple
charsets with ISO 2022 sequences, which it usually recognizes when
reading external files.  I haven't tried mixing, for example, Latin 1
and Latin 2 abbrevs and saving them to see what happens.

Maybe abbrev-saving code should add a "-*-" coding cookie so the
coding system used is explicit?

> May be the hint with `file-coding-system-alist' should be added to
> the documentation.

I'm not sure what file-coding-system-alist does, but I'm sure glad it
helped you!  :-)