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From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/emacs@rum.cs.yale.edu>
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add non-ASCII characters to morse.el
Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:22:52 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200211202122.gAKLMqd23185@rum.cs.yale.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: ilu3cpwrq7k.fsf@latte.josefsson.org

> > In article <ilu8yzoscs8.fsf@latte.josefsson.org>, Simon Josefsson <jas@extundo.com> writes:
> >> Is there a better way to represent non-ASCII in elisp?
> >
> > What do you mean?  Some way other than Lisp string?
> 
> Yes.  The coding system used by *.el doesn't seem fixed, so if I add a
> morse sequence for the euro sign by storing the euro sign literally,
> someone else opening the file might read it as a Latin-1 currency
> symbol -- and emacs treat the two characters as distinct.  Should I
> add a charset cookie to the file perhaps?

Yes.  And I recommend the utf-8 cookie if it's an option.


	Stefan

  reply	other threads:[~2002-11-20 21:22 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-11-20 11:25 [PATCH] Add non-ASCII characters to morse.el Simon Josefsson
2002-11-20 11:54 ` Kenichi Handa
2002-11-20 19:33   ` Simon Josefsson
2002-11-20 21:22     ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2002-11-21 11:30       ` Simon Josefsson
2002-11-22 16:11         ` Karl Eichwalder
2002-11-22 17:00           ` Simon Josefsson

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