escape-quoted problem in byte-compiled files

If you

(1) create a private 96-charset
(2) create a library which uses that charset in Lisp code (eg, in a
    string)
(3) byte-compile the library

then it seems the resulting file cannot be loaded by XEmacs.  The
error you get is "Symbol's value as variable is void: -A".

The problem seems to be that the escape-quoted coding system doesn't
grok the ESC - b ("designate Latin-9 to G1") sequence, leaving it
verbatim in the file, and then assumes that the ESC - A ("designate
Latin-1 to G1") sequence is equally bogus.

The problem does not occur if you ensure that relevant charset is
defined before you load the offending file.

;;;###autoload
(unless (find-charset 'latin-iso8859-15) (make-charset ...))

seems to work for me.

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