On Thu, Jan 19, 2017 at 11:05 AM, Eli Zaretskii wrote: >> From: phillip.lord@russet.org.uk (Phillip Lord) >> Cc: Glenn Morris , 25360@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii >> Date: Thu, 19 Jan 2017 10:45:51 +0000 >> >> > I believe it does respect "coding:" in general (at least it looks like >> > there are some comments to that effect in Finsert_file_contents), but >> > indeed it doesn't matter in this case because we're let-binding >> > `coding-system-for-read' which overrides that. >> >> I have checked this now with a full bootstrap and it appears not to >> work, unfortunately -- the .el files that are generated are broken (this >> isn't obvious until they fail to byte-compile -- you have let the build >> complete). > > Every file is broken, or just some of them? If the latter, can you > name some of them, or try to figure out what they have in common? The problem is that (with-temp-buffer) changes the current buffer, which the converter function expected to be set to the output file (sorry for not checking this properly before). Attached is a non-broken version of my previous patch.