Re: desktop.el problem [Re: X-Symbol 4.0e; Emacs port (fwd)]

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Thu, 25 Jul 2002, Kenichi Handa wrote:

> Another workaround is not to save such strings that contains
> a characters of newly defined charsets.
> 
> What do people think?  I prefer the latter method because
> the former method is not robust.  It won't be able to deal
> with the situation that a user defines a charset in his
> .emacs before .emacs.desktop is loaded.
> 
> By the way, emacs-unicode won't have this problem.

If this problem is temporary, until the Unicode Emacs is released, 
perhaps we just need to have an entry in PROBLEMS explaining the 
limitation.  It might also be a good idea to have desktop.el display a 
warning when it detects such characters in some string it's about to 
save.