bug#1187: 23.0.60; Cannot read vline.el - invalid read syntax

[Lennart Borgman (gmail)]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> From: "Drew Adams" <drew.adams@oracle.com>
>> Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2008 17:00:40 -0700
>> Cc: 
>>
>>> Just for info: I had some similar problems and decided to set
>>>  current-language-environment to "UTF-8"
>> OK, thanks for the workaround.
>>
>> But that should not be necessary. In Emacs 22, it just DTRT. Users should be
>> able to load the file in both Emacs versions without fiddling with the 
>> language
>> environment.
> 
> But that could be a problem with vline.el itself, you know.  It uses
> non-ASCII characters, but does not include any "coding:" cookies, so
> Emacs is left with its guesswork for how to interpret the 8-bit bytes
> included in the file.  And that guesswork is not fool-proof.
> 
> I will look at this closer after you report the details about the
> bytes that I requested in my other message.

I do not remember; could the defaults be changed so that reading files
like vline.el will succeed?