Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Richard Stallman <rms@gnu.org>]

    > Handa says that telling people "don't use utf-8" solves the problem.

    Additionally to "don't use unify-8859-on-decoding" which causes similar
    problems (which we already bumped into a few years ago when we included
    unify-8859-on-decoding) with iso8859 chars and coding systems like iso-2022.

There is a way for a Lisp file to specify a coding system which isn't
utf-8.  Is there a way for a Lisp file to specify that
unify-8859-on-decoding should not be used when reading it?

If not, maybe we should make one.

Here's one idea: if the -*- line specifies `coding' and specifies
the mode `emacs-lisp' then force unify-8859-on-decoding to nil
for that file. 

That idea has the advantage that most of the Lisp files where
this issue might arise won't need any change in order to be
assured of DTRT.