Re: coding problem, with older GNU emacs or Xemacs; auto-capitalize.el

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Uwe Brauer <oub@mat.ucm.es>
> Date: Sat, 16 Apr 2016 08:33:07 +0000
> Cc: XEmacs Beta Discussion <xemacs-beta@xemacs.org>
> 
>  the nifty but not much used auto-capitalize.el had a bug in buffers
>  which are using AUCTeX Latex mode. That bug has been fixed thanks to
>  Mosè Mosè, but the original code is in emacs wiki and contains some
>  strange coding and lines
> 
>     -  it starts with
> ;;; auto-capitalize.el --- Automatically capitalize (or upcase) words
> ;;; -*-unibyte: t; coding: iso-8859-1;-*-
> ;; Copyright � 1998,2001,2002,2005 Kevin Rodgers

For Emacs, just remove all that stuff, it's unnecessary.

> What would be an more appropriate coding (which should work in GNU emacs,
> Xemacs (including Xemacs no mule)?

I have no idea how XEmacs works wrt this, so no comment here.

>     -  more worrying are these lines
> 
>  (if (featurep 'xemacs)
> "\\<\\([A-Z�-��-�]?[a-z�-��-�]+\\.\\)+\\="
> "\\<\\([[:upper:]]?[[:lower:]]+\\.\\)+\\=")))

Once again, the funny stuff is only for XEmacs, so I think you are
asking in the wrong place.  The Emacs branch of this is clear, and
doesn't need any encoding-related tricks.

> That seems much more an Xemacs issue than GNU emacs. I just want to make
> sure what will be the best choice for the coding so that the code keeps
> working for newer/older versions of GNU emacs and Xemacs (Mule and no
> Mule).

I think you should ask on the XEmacs list, not here.