Re: non-ASCII TAGS

[Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>]

Sorry for the late response on this matter.

In article <rzqu1dgiz0i.fsf@albion.dl.ac.uk>, Dave Love <d.love@dl.ac.uk> writes:
> Probably the worst problem with using non-ASCII programming
> identifiers is etags.  It isn't aware of encoding issues and fixing
> the issues is non-trivial, so this is mainly raising a flag and hoping
> someone can work on it.  I think sorting it out requires not only
> extending the TAGS format, but probably also generating it with Emacs.
> I don't have time to work on this, but here's the problem and some
> ideas.

What do you think about the following proposal which, I
think, work in most cases without extending the TAGS format.
In the case it doesn't work, we can still ask people to use
C-x RET c __CODING__ RET ESC . .

Of course, as you wrote, recoding coding systems in TAGS is
ideal, but it requires more work just to save rare cases.

Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org> writes:
> In article <shpto57wa4.fsf_-_@tux.gnu.franken.de>, Karl Eichwalder <keichwa@gmx.net> writes:
>>  Now the next one: `tags-query-replace' does not work properly when file
>>  names are UTF-8 encoded.  First run `etags *' on the files and then
>>  call `tags-query-replace'.

> This is the same type of bug (but more difficult) as what I
> posted to emacs-devel by the subjest "bad interaction with
> C-x RET c and vc-cvs-registered".

> A tag file contains file names plus parts of source code.
> The former must be decoded by file-name-coding-system, but
> the latter must be decoded by the coding system of each
> file.  It's very hard to decided a coding system for the
> latter without actually reading the file.

> Perhaps, a tag file must be read as raw-text (thus in a
> unibyte buffer), and if one gives a non-ASCII TAGNAME to
> `find-tag', it must be encoded by the
> buffer-file-coding-system of the current buffer.

And the reply from Richard is as follows:

> That seems like a good approach.  Would someone like to implement it?

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Ken'ichi HANDA
handa@m17n.org