Subject: Re: bug#8308: 23.3; Use utf-8 for writing abbrev file

From: Andreas Röhler <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2011 19:24:16 +0100

Am 21.03.2011 15:50, schrieb Stefan Monnier:
>> Is it OK to change the encoding for abbrev file to utf-8?
>> === modified file 'lisp/abbrev.el'
>> --- a/lisp/abbrev.el	2011-03-21 05:49:12 +0000
>> +++ b/lisp/abbrev.el	2011-03-21 06:20:36 +0000
>> @@ -225,9 +225,9 @@
>>   		    abbrev-file-name)))
>>     (or (and file (>  (length file) 0))
>>         (setq file abbrev-file-name))
>> -  (let ((coding-system-for-write 'emacs-mule))
>> +  (let ((coding-system-for-write 'utf-8))
>>       (with-temp-file file
>> -      (insert ";;-*-coding: emacs-mule;-*-\n")
>> +      (insert ";;-*-coding: utf-8;-*-\n")
>>         (dolist (table
>>                  ;; We sort the table in order to ease the automatic
>>                  ;; merging of different versions of the user's abbrevs
>
> Sounds good in general, but I'm wondering whether we should worry about
> the presence of abbrevs which include bytes (aka eight-bit-chars).
> Using `utf-8-emacs' should fix those issues, but would then bump into
> the problem that such abbrev files wouldn't be compatible with Emacs-22.
>
>
>          Stefan
>

Hi,

so maybe not hard-code it, rather have a variable?

Andreas