Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: Kenichi Handa <address@hidden>,  address@hidden,
>         address@hidden
> From: Stefan Monnier <address@hidden>
> Date: Wed, 03 May 2006 10:21:15 -0400
> 
> > Right, but what about Cyrillic and Greek?  The merits and demerits of
> > depending on utf-fragment-on-decoding are not clear when the Lisp
> > reader is involved.
> 
> I think we should treat them as much as possible consistently with the rest
> of the treatment of unicode chars.

IIRC, we don't support such a consistency when we load Lisp files,
because we don't want loading and byte-compiling to depend on user
settings.

Of course, the same effect can also be achieved by binding
utf-fragment-on-decoding etc. to appropriate values.