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Re: [PATCH] Add non-ASCII characters to morse.el
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
Re: [PATCH] Add non-ASCII characters to morse.el |
Date: |
Wed, 20 Nov 2002 16:22:52 -0500 |
> > In article <address@hidden>, Simon Josefsson <address@hidden> writes:
> >> Is there a better way to represent non-ASCII in elisp?
> >
> > What do you mean? Some way other than Lisp string?
>
> Yes. The coding system used by *.el doesn't seem fixed, so if I add a
> morse sequence for the euro sign by storing the euro sign literally,
> someone else opening the file might read it as a Latin-1 currency
> symbol -- and emacs treat the two characters as distinct. Should I
> add a charset cookie to the file perhaps?
Yes. And I recommend the utf-8 cookie if it's an option.
Stefan