Re: propagating a coding setting across source files

[Andy Wingo]

On Sun 15 Jan 2012 22:51, address@hidden (Ludovic Courtès) writes:

> Mike Gran <address@hidden> skribis:
>
>> I tried to dig through the logic of this the other day, and I'm not
>> sure that your suggestion can work.  If "load" ends up calling
>> "primitive-load", then any file without a "coding:" line is UTF-8.
>> %default-port-encoding doesn't enter in to it.
>
> Right.  So what Sven is asking for, propagating source file encoding
> programmatically, is not possible AFAIK.  Sven: you really need to add
> the “coding:” cookie to each and every file.

Is possible to provide such an interface?

I agree that coding: is the right thing, but there's a lot of legacy
code out there.  If it's possible to support without much effort, we
probably should do so.

Andy
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