From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Stephen J. Turnbull" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding Date: Wed, 04 Mar 2009 11:05:06 +0900 Message-ID: <878wnm9h65.fsf@xemacs.org> References: <87tz6ak9bq.fsf@gmail.com> <49adca00.14098e0a.2c79.ffff83d1@mx.google.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1236132635 1749 80.91.229.12 (4 Mar 2009 02:10:35 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 4 Mar 2009 02:10:35 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, Nobuyoshi Nakada , Leo To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Wed Mar 04 03:11:52 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LegaM-0000JF-Jk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Wed, 04 Mar 2009 03:11:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:33062 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LegZ0-0001TM-T2 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:10:26 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LegYw-0001T7-JF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LegYu-0001Sv-UO for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:10:22 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=51189 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LegYu-0001Ss-OU for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp ([130.158.97.224]:59049) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LegYu-0008SM-79 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 03 Mar 2009 21:10:20 -0500 Original-Received: from uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp [130.158.99.156]) by mtps02.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0232D7FFA; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:10:17 +0900 (JST) Original-Received: by uwakimon.sk.tsukuba.ac.jp (Postfix, from userid 1000) id B007A1A2C40; Wed, 4 Mar 2009 11:05:06 +0900 (JST) In-Reply-To: X-Mailer: VM 8.0.12-devo-585 under 21.5 (beta28) "fuki" 83e35df20028+ XEmacs Lucid (x86_64-unknown-linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6, seldom 2.4 (older, 4) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109430 Archived-At: Stefan Monnier writes: > So you're saying that Ruby uses the same "-*- coding: -*-" as used > by Emacs? That makes sense, then, thank you, As does Python, and it is mandatory in Python for non-ASCII IIRC. See PEP 263 for details. AFAIK Python modes don't try to enforce it (yet), but they might in the future, for the same reasons that ruby-mode does. This should be considered equivalent to an encoding declaration in an XML fragment.