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