Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Aidan Kehoe <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 5 May 2006 20:33:56 +0200
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>  > 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. 

It's not necessarily relevant, because I didn't mean theoretical
exercises, I meant normal byte-compiling of Lisp files which just
happen to have \u escapes in them.  Such files usually won't be
encoded in some arbitrary encoding.  Use of 8-bit \nnn characters is
also discouraged due to the ambiguity of their interpretation.

Emacs gives us enough rope to hang ourselves, but that doesn't mean we
should actually do that whenever we have a few moments of free time ;-)