bug#8308: 23.3; Use utf-8 for writing abbrev file

[Andreas Röhler]

Am 21.03.2011 15:50, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
> > Is it OK to change the encoding for abbrev file to utf-8?
> > === modified file 'lisp/abbrev.el'
> > --- a/lisp/abbrev.el    2011-03-21 05:49:12 +0000
> > +++ b/lisp/abbrev.el    2011-03-21 06:20:36 +0000
> > @@ -225,9 +225,9 @@
> >                     abbrev-file-name)))
> >     (or (and file (>  (length file) 0))
> >         (setq file abbrev-file-name))
> > -  (let ((coding-system-for-write 'emacs-mule))
> > +  (let ((coding-system-for-write 'utf-8))
> >       (with-temp-file file
> > -      (insert ";;-*-coding: emacs-mule;-*-\n")
> > +      (insert ";;-*-coding: utf-8;-*-\n")
> >         (dolist (table
> >                  ;; We sort the table in order to ease the automatic
> >                  ;; merging of different versions of the user's abbrevs
>
> Sounds good in general, but I'm wondering whether we should worry about
> the presence of abbrevs which include bytes (aka eight-bit-chars).
> Using `utf-8-emacs' should fix those issues, but would then bump into
> the problem that such abbrev files wouldn't be compatible with Emacs-22.
>
>
>          Stefan

Hi,

so maybe not hard-code it, rather have a variable?

Andreas