Re: [S] [C] xemacs-21.5: Fix mule-win32-init typo in dumped-lisp.el

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> Wed, 12 Jan 2005 13:34:46 +0900
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.xemacs.design
Organization The XEmacs Project
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Moving to XEmacs Design.  Reply-to set.

>>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <[email protected]> writes:

    Aidan>  Ar an naoiú lá de mí Eanair, scríobh Adrian Aichner:

    >> What's the proper file-coding to use for ChangeLog files to
    >> handle wide characters?

iso-8859-1.  Sorry, that's the current standard.  (It's Lisp files
that are ISO-2022-7.)  Fixing this would be straightforward but
tedious in XEmacs, could be surprising elsewhere (including older
XEmacs ChangeLogs).

If you decide to fix it, the way to do it would be to convert all
ChangeLogs to utf-8.  This requires proofreading (ie, use
'(skip-chars-forward "[\000-\177]")' or an equivalent grep to find
non-ASCII characters.

Then add an entry to file-coding-system-alist for ChangeLog.

Probably there should be some hook function as well to check for other
coding systems.


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