bug#48029: 28.1; [native-comp] Function names with non-ascii characters

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> From: Andrea Corallo <akrl@sdf.org>
> Cc: larsi@gnus.org, 48029@debbugs.gnu.org, jakanakaevangeli@chiru.no
> Date: Fri, 08 Jul 2022 13:43:15 +0000
> 
> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
> 
> >> > Why do we have ";; -*-coding: nil; -*- "?  I think that's the problem:
> >> > it should be ";; -*-coding: utf-8; -*- " instead.  Where does the nil
> >> > come from?
> >> 
> >> AFAIR at the time we encountered a situation when one of these files was
> >> read back with some other encoding (I guess it's heuristic?) so fixing
> >> the encoding to nil solved the issue.
> >
> > You mean, bug#45433?
> 
> Yes that's the one.
> 
> > If the problem is EOL conversion, using
> > utf-8-unix instead of utf-8 should take care of that.  Or maybe even
> > use utf-8-emacs-unix.
> 
> Will utf-8-unix or utf-8-emacs-unix work on every OS?

Yes.

> If yes which one would you recommend we use?

The latter, I think.

> > Are we likely to write bytecode into this temporary file?
> 
> Yes definitely

OK, then I think utf-8-emacs-unix it is.

> >> Should this patch go in master or into the release branch?
> >
> > To the release branch, if Lars agrees.  But let's first try to see if
> > bug#45433 is not back after the above change.
> 
> I can't see the test failing even removing the original fix so probably
> some of the code in Emacs that is leveraged changed. This also suggests
> the test is not really useful anymore (I'll double check and remove it).

OK, thanks.