Re: [Peter Dyballa] Re: Coding system of file not recognised correctly

[Chong Yidong]

Stefan Monnier <address@hidden> writes:

>>>> when I have in load-path outside /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/
>>>> international the files (copies obviously):
>>> 
>>> If you remove these spurious translation table files from your
>>> load-path, the problem goes away: correct or not?
>
>>     Yes, it goes away.
>
>>     The copies are taken from /usr/local/share/emacs/22.0.50/lisp/ 
>>     international.
>
>> Are you saying that putting copies of standard Emacs files,
>> unmodified, into another place in the load-path causes the bug?
>
>> That is really strange.
>
> From what I understand, what he really says is that those files behave
> differently if they're not byte-compiled (e.g. if he copies the .el file
> earlier in his load-path, but not if he also copies the .elc file with it).

I think this may to do with the fact that the translation table .el
files are encoded in big5 or whatever, whereas the elc files are
encoded in emacs-mule-unix.