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changeset 71307:b4f82229f064
(Coding Conventions): Explain use of coding systems
to ensure one decoding for strings.
| author | Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org> |
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| date | Sat, 10 Jun 2006 10:34:35 +0000 |
| parents | e31e18bcd667 |
| children | 50bf1e82432f |
| files | lispref/tips.texi |
| diffstat | 1 files changed, 25 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+] |
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--- a/lispref/tips.texi Sat Jun 10 10:17:41 2006 +0000 +++ b/lispref/tips.texi Sat Jun 10 10:34:35 2006 +0000 @@ -224,6 +224,31 @@ coherent if all libraries use the same conventions. @item +If your program contains non-ASCII characters in string or character +constants, you should make sure Emacs always decodes these characters +the same way, regardless of the user's settings. There are two ways +to do that: + +@itemize - +@item +Use coding system @code{emacs-mule}, and specify that for +@code{coding} in the @samp{-*-} line or the local variables list. + +@example +;; XXX.el -*- coding: emacs-mule; -*- +@end example + +@item +Use one of the coding systems based on ISO 2022 (such as +iso-8859-@var{n} and iso-2022-7bit), and specify it with @samp{!} at +the end for @code{coding}. (The @samp{!} turns off any possible +character translation.) + +@example +;; XXX.el -*- coding: iso-latin-2!; -*- +@end example + +@item Indent each function with @kbd{C-M-q} (@code{indent-sexp}) using the default indentation parameters.