Re: [SmokeTest Failure] 21.5-b11-nomule, tramp-1.13
"Stephen J. Turnbull" <stephen(a)xemacs.org> writes:
Coding cookies are evil.
I beg to disagree. They are necessary for informing the system about
the charset used in a file. (Unless all of the files in a system are
of the same encoding, which is not feasible in multi-user systems.)
MIME uses coding cookies (in the form of charset attributes in the
content-type header), HTML uses them, XML uses then (in the <?xml?>
processing instruction), and I'm sure I could find other examples.
Lisp sources really should be in a single specified universal coding
system, preferably Unicode UTF-8 but of course that's not currently
feasible.
For me, it's convenient to store *.el files in Latin-1 or Latin-9
encoding, because that enables me to use grep on them, just like I do
with other files.
Is there any chance that XEmacs will grok *.el files in other
encodings, or do I just have to bite the bullet and convert them to
iso-2022-7bit?
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