Re: About making elisp files UTF-8

>>>>> "Ben" == Ben Wing <[email protected]> writes:

    Ben> [1] what do we do about translating the stuff into the
    Ben> internal format when we read it in?

    >> We don't worry about it.

    Ben> What I'm concerned about is Mule, not non-Mule.  If we have
    Ben> UTF-8 elisp files, then what do we do when we read in a UTF-8
    Ben> string in a .elc file under Mule?  Which charset do we
    Ben> choose?

I still think this is basically a non-problem.  If it's Asian, assume
Japanese, since (with the exception of ./etc/hello and the input
methods) I don't think we distribute anything that's non-Japanese with
kanji in it.

In the input method files, we do a set-unicode-priority or whatever
that API is, this should work for everything in LEIM.  But most
non-Asian language users use window-system input methods where
possible AFAIK.

    Ben> If we switch to UTF-8 internally, this problem goes away.

Yes, for the elisp, but then we have to deal with the larger domain
where we don't have a font model for Unicode yet, except on MS
Windows.

BTW, savannah is down, at least from here, so I don't know when I'll
get a look at the emacs-unicode branch.

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