Ar an cúigiú lá déag de mí Bealtaine, scríobh Stephen J. Turnbull: I want to enforce something I already know on XEmacs, in a way that will work on other machines that don’t have my value of file-coding-system-alist. In a way that won’t interfere with command line parsing, as happens on Cygwin currently: /usr/bin/env: perl # -*- coding: windows-1251 -*-: No such file or directory Having it work on GNU Emacs too would be gravy. Only in the sense I gave above. Everything we do introduces new ways to fail. The interesting thing is the tradeoff between those and the positive aspects of what we do. Spoken like an East Asian. No they can’t. Trivial examples; deciding between iso-8859-1 vs. iso-8859-15. Between KOI8-U used for Russian vs. KOI8-R. iso-8859-2 used for German, vs iso-8859-1 used for German (bit-for-bit identical, until someone types the word Škoda, which Germans have occasion to do now and then). Japan; the land of transcoding HTTP proxies. The land where backslash is written as Y with two lines through it. The land of government standards for character sets that left encodings underspecified. Okay, so we don’t need coding cookies in Japan today. That doesn’t help Europe a whole lot. Thanks. Nope. -- On the quay of the little Black Sea port, where the rescued pair came once more into contact with civilization, Dobrinton was bitten by a dog which was assumed to be mad, though it may only have been indiscriminating. (Saki) _______________________________________________ XEmacs-Beta mailing list XEmacs-Beta(a)xemacs.org http://calypso.tux.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/xemacs-beta