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Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build


From: Stefan Monnier
Subject: Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2007 14:21:39 -0500
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.50 (gnu/linux)

>> I don't know, but it is an interesting question.  Should Emacs call
>> set-locale-environment when running in batch mode?

>     As I wrote elsewhere, it now seems to do that unconditionally.

>     In general, since -batch may still imply prompts followed by keyboard
>     input, I think we do need to set up keyboard encoding correctly.

> When Emacs reads input in batch mode, does it do this decoding at all?
> I don't know.  But since the input is coming from stdin, not from "the
> keyboard", I think it is wrong to do any such decoding.

I don't see why it would be wrong.  It would be wrong to do
terminal-escape-sequence processing, but coding-system decoding on the
contrary seems like the right thing to do.


        Stefan




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