Re: Guile integration and UTF-8

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Smith <address@hidden>
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 2013 10:20:45 -0400
> 
> There are already serious restrictions on the types of encodings that
> make will support.  For example, any encoding which does not reserve the
> standard ASCII bytecodes for all characters which are special to make,
> such as whitespace, newline, "$", "(", ")", "{", "}", ":", etc., and
> which does not reserve a single byte '\0' as the EOS marker will simply
> not work and cannot be made to work without VERY significant changes to
> the code.

Every single-byte encoding satisfies these requirements.  Not sure
about the CJK ISO-2022 based ones (have to check).