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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Nobuyoshi Nakada <nobu@ruby-lang.org>
Cc: Leo <sdl.web@gmail.com>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 2009 20:14:40 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwv3adu6qfs.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49adca00.14098e0a.2c79.ffff83d1@mx.google.com> (Nobuyoshi Nakada's message of "Wed, 04 Mar 2009 09:23:23 +0900")

>> I don't know if it's too intrusive, but it seems unrelated to Ruby.
>> Nobuyoshi Nakada, looking at the history of ruby-mode.el at
>> http://svn.ruby-lang.org/repos/ruby/trunk/misc, it appears the change is
>> due to you, could you explain what this is intended to do?
>> If it's not specific to Ruby, then maybe it should be moved elsewhere.

> It's mandatory for Ruby 1.9 or later.  Ruby 1.9 needs that
> "magic comment" to know in what encoding a script is written.
> Otherwise, the script is assumed as written with ASCII 7bit
> characters only, and non-ASCII character causes an exception if
> exists.

> Could you elaborate the problem?

So you're saying that Ruby uses the same "-*- coding: <foo> -*-" as used
by Emacs?  That makes sense, then, thank you,


        Stefan






  reply	other threads:[~2009-03-04  1:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-03-03 13:46 ruby-mode : ruby-mode-set-encoding Paul R
2009-03-03 13:55 ` Leo
2009-03-03 16:30   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04  0:23     ` Nobuyoshi Nakada
2009-03-04  1:14       ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-03-04  2:05         ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04  4:07           ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04  6:10             ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04 14:10               ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 15:07                 ` Stephen J. Turnbull
2009-03-04 16:40                   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04  8:25       ` Paul R
2009-03-04 14:13         ` Stefan Monnier
2009-03-04 14:56         ` Nobuyoshi Nakada

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