Re: enable-multibyte-characters

[wmperry@aventail.com (William M. Perry)]

Didier Verna <verna@inf.enst.fr> writes:

> I've found the origin of my 'enable-multibyte-characters[1] problem (it
> was set to nil from time to time with no apparent reason). It happens
> when using the picons + network stuff. The function
> 'mule-inhibit-code-conversion (from mule-sysdp.el in the w3 package)
> contains the following code:
> 
>  ,----
> |   (if (process-buffer proc)                        
> |       (save-excursion                              
> |         (set-buffer (process-buffer proc))         
> |         (set 'mc-flag nil)                         
> |         (if (fboundp 'set-buffer-multibyte)        
> |             (set-buffer-multibyte nil)             
> |           (set 'enable-multibyte-characters nil))))
> `-----
> 
> I guess 'enable-multibyte-characters should be made buffer local first.
> Bill ?

enable-multibyte-characters is _supposed_ to be buffer-local.  It has
always been that way in Emacs, as far as I know.

> Footnotes: 
> [1]  Steve, this is a good example of why it's really bad to have this
> meaningless variable in XEmacs.

Agreed. :)

-bp