Re: [PATCH] Unicode Lisp reader escapes

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Juri Linkov <address@hidden> writes:

>> (2) Accept "char-trans: VAL" in header and local variables section.
>> I think "translation: VAL" is too ambiguous.
>> (3) Accept "enable-character-translation: VAL" in local
>> variables section.

> I think using different names in the first line and in the local
> variables section is not good.  Users may move these settings
> between these two places in the same file, and incompatible names
> are the source of inconvenience and confusion.  Since the variable name
> is `enable-character-translation', there should be no problem in using it
> in the first line as well.

But, wasn't it you who proposed "char-trans"?

Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> But we already do that, e.g. with coding: in the header vs
> coding-system in local vars.

No, AFAIK we only accepts "coding" in local vars.

Anyway, the situation of coding: tag is a little bit
different from enable-character-translation case because we
don't have a variable for the formar.

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Kenichi Handa
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