Subject: Re: bug#12598: 24.2; utf-8 codepoints in doc-strings and compression of .el and .elc files

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Feb 2013 09:06:45 -0500

>> Fixing `eval-buffer' so that it skips bytes when it sees #@NN is tricky,
>> so the best fix is probably to change load-with-code-conversion so that
>> (if the file is byte-compiled) it saves the buffer to a temp file and
>> passes that to `load'.
> The variable load-source-file-function is set to
> load-with-code-converision, and Fload calls
> load-source-file-function.  So, shouldn't we provide a file
> name handler for `load' operation instead of
> making load-source-file-function handle non-source files?

We could, but I suspect that the problem (and the fix) would be the same
for all file-name-handlers.  IOW, the problem is not in how to access
the file's contents, but in how eval-buffer (used by
load-with-code-conversion) doesn't handle byte-compiled file correctly.

        Stefan