>>>> William M. Perry (William) said:
William> This _HAS_ to be buffer-local if it is supposed to mimic the
William> same variable under Emacs 20.x
William> Without this, packages that (correctly) set
William> enable-multibyte-characters can screw each other over. And
William> individual applications should *NOT* have to make this
William> buffer-local themselves.
Since it is compatibility variable, should not XEmacs provide also
compatibility function for setting it ? It is set-buffer-multibyte in
Emacs.
Note, however, that some packages use setq-default to set it, and
default-value to read its value. But I assume this is broken behaviour.
Petr
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