Re: parallel bootstrap failure; _prompt_? during bootstrap build

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Richard Stallman <address@hidden>
> CC: address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2007 21:28:12 -0500
> 
>     If my keyboard input is in some specific encoding, that generally
>     means my text files, in particular those I feed instead of keyboard
>     input, will tend to be encoded the same way.
> 
> All your keyboard input comes from you, but the files on your system
> were not all written by you.  That is why Emacs tries to determine
> the encoding of a file.  It does not follow keyboard-coding-system.

If what you say is that we should perhaps try detecting the encoding
of a file input (unlike what we do with keyboard input), then I don't
mind.  The thing is, right now we don't even try to decode input under
"-batch".