Re: escape-quoted problem in byte-compiled files

uh ...  what version are you running?  i fixed a bug in this very area just a
couple of days ago, and the fix is in what i just checked in.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" wrote:
> 
> 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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