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From: Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM>
To: drich@cisco.com
Cc: "Tomasz J. Cholewo" <tjchol01@mecca.spd.louisville.edu>,
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Subject: Re: [patch] Re: Continued jka-compr problems
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>>>>> "Dan" == Dan Rich <drich@cisco.com> writes:

Dan> Martin raises a good point with the coding system though.  Right now,
Dan> it looks as if it is going to be set to "binary" for .gz and .Z
Dan> files.  I'm not sure what problems that may cause down the road.

I should have clarified a little more.

If you edit foo.el, xemacs uses coding-system iso-2022-8-unix to
decode the file.  If you edit foo.el.gz, xemacs uses no-conversion for
both decoding phases.  As long as you restrict yourself to iso8859-1
characters, you're OK, but it's a bug that other files will be
corrupted.  Anyways, this is better than the situation before, where
the .gz file was converted into various mule characters before being
gunzip'ed, which never worked.

Martin

