Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Stefan Monnier]

>     It's just a lot of work for very little benefit: people have lived
>     with this problem for a while now and haven't found the workarounds to
>     be serious (basically: don't use utf-8 for those files and don't use
>     unify-8859-on-decoding if you manipulate such files).

> I don't follow.  Are you saying that this problem only occurs
> for utf-8 encoding?

IIRC such tables are used either during encoding to unicode (i.e. if you
save as utf-8) or upon decoding (but only if you've enabled
unify-8859-on-decoding).  My memory is fuzzy, tho.


        Stefan