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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 03 Feb 2013 11:04:47 -0500

>> 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.
> Should eval-buffer handle byte-compiled code in a buffer?

That'd be nice, tho it might be kind of annoying to implement (having to
look at buffer-file-coding-system to figure out the byte-size of each
char when skipping #@NN).

        Stefan