Re: [PATCH (pkgs)] New mode: desktop-entry-mode

Ville> A semi-unrelated question: is UTF-8 ok in .el files? No. The current standard (adopted in the days of Steve Baur) says that .el files must be 100% ASCII to be under xemacs-packages or in core, and Mule .els are ISO-2022-JP. (There are a fair number of violations still, but if they cause a bug, the standard is required of the fix.) A similar standard should be applied to ChangeLogs, but it's much more convenient to allow them to be ISO 8859/1 as almost all non-Western- Europeans are willing to use ASCII-only romanizations of their names. UTF-8 is in particular verboten, because it is not supported by 21.1 or 21.4. (NB. The JP is spurious; in fact ISO-2022-JP is a generic 7-bit universal coding system, equivalent in power to UTF-8 with no exceptions that XEmacs can handle, which starts with ASCII in GL.) Transitioning away from this is going to be difficult. Remind me to think about it every so often .... -- Institute of Policy and Planning Sciences http://turnbull.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp University of Tsukuba Tennodai 1-1-1 Tsukuba 305-8573 JAPAN Ask not how you can "do" free software business; ask what your business can "do for" free software.