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27.0.50; Symbol enable-multibyte-characters may not be buffer-local

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de, 29422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#29422: 27.0.50; Symbol enable-multibyte-characters may not be buffer-local
Date: Sun, 26 Nov 2017 05:39:31 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
> Cc: michael_heerdegen <at> web.de,  29422 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 25 Nov 2017 21:07:22 -0500
> 
> My patch did not touch `setq`.  It just made `make-local-variable` and
> `make-buffer-local-variable` signal the same error as `setq`.
> 
> > I meant for you to do that, as part of fixing this problem, but if you
> > don't feel like it, we should at least change the ELisp manual, as it
> > now contradicts the code.
> 
> If you mean the doc of `setq`, then I guess this discrepancy has been
> with us since Emacs-21.

Not unheard of, and not a good reason to leave it that way.

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