Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Richard Stallman]

    > I do not know what those variables mean.  Do they affect the
    > choice of coding system?  Or do they take effect by altering
    > the meaning of a given coding system?

    They select the target character set.  When Emacs decodes text with
    Latin or Cyrillic or Greek characters, it could produce either Unicode
    charset or one of the ISO 8859 charsets.  These variables control
    that.

I cannot determine clearly, from your response, the answer to my
questions.  Do these variables affect the choice of coding system?  Or
do they take effect by altering the meaning of a given coding system?

I think perhaps you are saying it is the latter, but I am not sure.

If it is the latter, perhaps the best solution is to say
that every Lisp file should specify these variables, in the -*-
line or local variables list, if they affect it.