Re: Invalid read syntax for compiled bool vector

[Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>]

Lars Brinkhoff <lars@nocrew.org> writes:

> Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:
>> Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org> writes:
>> >     Apparently, you have to bind coding-system-for-write before
>> >     writing a source file with a literal bool-vector constant in
>> >     it, or else Emacs will either ask the user for the coding
>> >     system, or write the file using some default coding system
>> >     which may not do the right thing.
>> > I guess we should change the syntax for bool-vectors so as to put
>> > just 4 bits into each character.  The question is how to do that
>> > in a somewhat compatible way.
>> The print syntax could use octal or hexadecimal escapes in the bit string.
>
> Yes.  Since the print syntax for bool-vectors looks like strings, I
> would sugggest doing whatever the print syntax for strings does.

I have now changed the print syntax to always use octal escapes for
non-ascii characters in the bool-vector string.  This way the string will
always be read as unibyte string, avoiding all coding issues.

Andreas.

-- 
Andreas Schwab, SuSE Labs, schwab@suse.de
SuSE Linux AG, Maxfeldstraße 5, 90409 Nürnberg, Germany
Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756  01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5
"And now for something completely different."