Re: non-ascii chars in the Lisp source files

[Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de>]

On Wed, Sep 03 2003, Katsumi Yamaoka wrote:

>>>>>>	Reiner Steib <4.uce.03.r.s@nurfuerspam.de> wrote:
>
>> All mentioned files already contain a cookie:
[...]
>> Doesn't XEmacs allow the cookie in the local variables section?
>
> Unfortunately, it probably be so. :(

This seems to be a bug (see also [1]) in XEmacs 21.4 then, as (info
"(XEmacs)Recognize Coding") in XEmacs 21.4.12 mentions local
variables:

,----[ (info "(XEmacs)Recognize Coding") ]
|    You can specify the coding system for a particular file using the
| `-*-...-*-' construct at the beginning of a file, or a local variables
| list at the end (*note File Variables::).  You do this by defining a
| value for the "variable" named `coding'.  XEmacs does not really have a
| variable `coding'; instead of setting a variable, it uses the specified
| coding system for the file.
`----

Bye, Reiner.

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