Re: On elisp running native

[Jean-Christophe Helary]

> On Jan 5, 2020, at 13:51, Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> wrote:
> 
>> Can't it be enforced that they are all in one given encoding ?
> 
> You can
> 
>    (setq load-source-file-function nil)
> 
> and then all .el files will be blindly treated as utf-8 (and loaded
> faster).  It'll work right with all .el files bundled with Emacs (and
> all those in GNU ELPA as well, IIRC).

But you wrote that ".el files are currently always loaded in a somewhat
cumbersome way in order to perform character decoding according to the
file's coding-system". Why isn't the emacs default to treat them all as utf-8 
as you just suggested ? 


Jean-Christophe Helary
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