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

From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 22 Apr 2014 23:11:37 -0400

>> See "bzr diff -c 39793".  In that revision, the SUFFIXES argument to
>> openp was changed, and its handling inside openp was changed as well.
>> I believe the intent was to let openp call the file handler.
> But, openp just checks whether or not any handlers exist, it
> doesn't call a found handler.

So re-enabling the

  handler = Ffind_file_name_handler (file, Qload);

code might be the best fix.  But does it really work?  I mean, with
byte-compile-dynamic file for example (or to find the docstrings after
loading the file)?

        Stefan