Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Stefan Monnier]

>> Because this is a serious cause of unreliability.

>     I don't see why you'd think so.  Could you expand?

> If Lisp files get executed and compiled in different ways
> according to the user's settings, this is unreliability of a
> very bad kind.

In theory I agree.  But the problem is fixed in emacs-unicode, there are
known workarounds in Emacs-CVS, and fixing it in Emacs-CVS is going to be
difficult.

> Handa says that telling people "don't use utf-8" solves the problem.

Additionally to "don't use unify-8859-on-decoding" which causes similar
problems (which we already bumped into a few years ago when we included
unify-8859-on-decoding) with iso8859 chars and coding systems like iso-2022.

> If that is a good solution, I think the problem is solved.

OK, good.

> Does everyone agree that that solution works?

Don't know about everyone, but at least I do,


        Stefan