Re: propagating a coding setting across source files

[Ludovic Courtès]

Hi!

Andy Wingo <address@hidden> skribis:

> 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?

Maybe a ‘guild compile’ option?

Ludo’.