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Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@srce.hr> writes:

> As a practical consequence, I am unable to `make autoloads' in
> Mule-less XEmacs.

This is known.

> For example, string at line 845 of tex-jp.el is sufficient to make the 
> whole file syntactically incorrect, which in turn makes the autoload
> process die.

> How would Mule cope with such strings being \-escaped?

I don't think it could.  The double quote is part of a multibyte
character.

> If not, a possible workaround would be to make the autoload-making
> process simply skip the files it cannot parse.

The real fix is to not attempt to bytecompile files that require MULE
support.  Note that a run-time test already exists for this (see
lib-src/update-elc.sh).

I'm working on the build procedure to handle all this, but am trying
to introduce change gradually so things don't get too broken along the
way.
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