Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> It's just a lot of work for very little benefit: people have lived
>>> with this problem for a while now and haven't found the workarounds to
>>> be serious (basically: don't use utf-8 for those files and don't use
>>> unify-8859-on-decoding if you manipulate such files).

>>> I don't follow.  Are you saying that this problem only occurs
>>> for utf-8 encoding?

>> IIRC such tables are used either during encoding to unicode (i.e. if you
>> save as utf-8) or upon decoding (but only if you've enabled
>> unify-8859-on-decoding).  My memory is fuzzy, tho.

> unify-8859-on-decoding-mode affects iso-8859-* coding
> systems.  If it is on, characters in a file of those coding
> systems are decoded into iso-8859-1 or
> mule-unicode-0100-24FF.  That's the meaning "unify 8859".

We seem to be in violent agreement.


        Stefan