21.4 better than 21.5? (was: babel, json, missing function decode-char)

[Aidan Kehoe]

 Ar an triochadú lá de mí na Samhain, scríobh Uwe Brauer: 

 > >>>>> "Julian" == Julian Bradfield <jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org> writes:
 > 
 >    > On 2009-11-30, Uwe Brauer <oub at mat.ucm.es> wrote:
 >    >>>>>>> "Julian" == Julian Bradfield <jcb+xeb at jcbradfield.org> writes:
 >    >> > (defun decode-char (cs c r)
 >    >> >  (ucs-to-char c))
 >    >> 
 >    >> I do (at least I suppose I do, I use utf8 encoding and un-define.el).
 >    >> So your idea did not work, I attach the relevant bugtrace below, but I
 > 
 >    > Oh, sorry, I didn't check to see how many arguments the json function
 >    > wants.
 > 
 >    > Try
 >    > (defun decode-char (cs c)
 >    >  (ucs-to-char c))
 > 
 > 
 > Great this works almost perfect!!!
 > 
 > 
 > 
 >     -  It is much better than decode-char as defined in mucs.el (xemacs
 >        21.4) 
 > 
 >     -  it is also better than decode-char in Xemacs 21.5.28!!!! So maybe
 >        I don't have to switch.
 > 
 > More seriously since I am going to write the author about xemacs
 > compatibly I should come to the conclusion that 21.4 is *better* suited
 > than 21.5, Steve are you reading this?
 > 
 > 
 > By better I mean the translation German-->French with UTF-8
 > 
 > Gives now:
 > 
 > Ich habe für mein Examen gefunden, daß 
 > 
 > J&#39;ai trouvé pour mes examens qui
 > 
 > Which is almost perfect save the dumb &#39 which I had to take care in
 > the last version separately as well.

It gets the number wrong, too, hahah, you were just talking about one exam.

 > Any comments, guys?

Thanks for the comment that startup is slower on 21.5; that gives us
something concrete and easy to investigate, more so than the general “21.5
is slow” “How so?” “It just is”. But, that said, have you tried
--with-optimization and --without-error-checking? Is dired as fast as 21.4
with those configure options? 

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