Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an cúigiú lá de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Oliver Scholz>: 

 > >  > What happens when a Lisp file is byte-compiled--do we want the result
 > >  > to depend on the local settings?
 >
 > [...]
 >
 > > It does currently, to the extent of local settings preventing successful
 > > compilation. Cf. this code (on Unix):
 > 
 > [...]
 > >     (insert (concat
 > >         ";; -*- coding: utf-8 -*-\n\n"
 > >         "(require 'cl)\n\n"
 > >         "(defun describe-our-string ()\n"
 > >         "  (let ((our-char ?"
 > >         (format "%c%c%c" ?\345 ?\215 ?\227)
 > [...]
 > >   (utf-translate-cjk-mode 0)
 > [...]
 > >   (byte-compile-file our-test-file-name)
 > [...]
 > 
 > I am afraid that is not relevant here. This just tells Emacs to not
 > deal with UTF-8 encoded CJK characters and then tell it to deal with
 > such an character.

It byte compiles a file, changes a local setting, and byte-compiles the file
again with a different result. That is relevant to Eli’s question. 

-- 
Aidan Kehoe, http://www.parhasard.net/