Re: propagating a coding setting across source files

[Mike Gran <spk121@yahoo.com>]

>>>>  I added to the master file the following comment:
>>>> 
>>>>  ; coding: iso-8859-1
>>>> 
>>>>  which works as documented.
>>>>  How can I avoid to add this comment line to all the other files
>>>>  which are currently included by the master file using 
> "load"?
>>> 
>>>  You can (fluid-set! %default-port-encoding "iso-8859-1").
>>> 
>>>  Let us know if this doesn't work.
>> 
>>  If I add this to my master file it does not help.
>>  Where should I put your command?
> 
> It could be that there is an issue regarding compile-time versus
> run-time;
> 
>   http://www.gnu.org/software/guile/manual/html_node/Eval-When.html
> 
> If you put this at the top of your file, before any use-modules or
> anything like that, does it work?
> 
>   (eval-when (eval load compile)
>     (fluid-set!  %default-port-encoding "iso-8859-1"))
> 
> You might need to run with --auto-compile=fresh to invalidate the
> caches.
 
Hey Andy, 
 
I tried to dig through the logic of this the other day, and I'm not
sure that your suggestion can work.  If "load" ends up calling
"primitive-load", then any file without a "coding:" line is UTF-8.
%default-port-encoding doesn't enter in to it.
 
But there is a lot between "load" and "primitive-load" that I didn't
try to trace through.  I'm not sure under what conditions "load" calls
"primitive load".
 
Thanks,
 
Mike