Re: Patch for copyright.el to allow multi-line copyrights

[Dave Love]

Richard Stallman <address@hidden> writes:

>     Great minds ... or something, but the patch I sent before I saw this
>     is more general.
> 
> I installed your patch, except that I did not delete the unibyte copyright
> symbol.  Why is it right to delete that?

It's redundant:

(set-language-environment "Latin-2")    ; no copyright symbol
  => t
(string-match "\x8a9" "\xa9")
  => 0

and it's actually incorrect, not that it's likely to cause harm in
that context:

(string-match "\xa9" "\x929")           ; Scaron
  => 0