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author | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-11-23 18:51:25 +0100 |
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committer | Ludovic Courtès <ludo@gnu.org> | 2009-11-23 23:51:02 +0100 |
commit | a270e133f390169b4d621ef139128a2b7ed30372 (patch) | |
tree | 59f9daddafd1d526f9cd7d6e8ce914ffe8c69893 /doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi | |
parent | 9a5ee564fab678cacda3a2d8ab4cec613768e1e4 (diff) | |
download | guile-a270e133f390169b4d621ef139128a2b7ed30372.tar.gz |
Correct manual wrt. encoding names.
* doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi (Character Encoding of Source Files):
Don't suggest `latin1' as a good encoding name since Emacs cannot deal
with it.
* libguile/read.c (scm_file_encoding): Fix "Emacs" spelling.
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1 files changed, 3 insertions, 2 deletions
diff --git a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi index c2c3a4ab5..fda029127 100644 --- a/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi +++ b/doc/ref/api-evaluation.texi @@ -664,8 +664,9 @@ However, there are some differences in encoding names recognized by Emacs and encoding names defined by IANA, the latter being essentially a subset of the former. For instance, @code{latin-1} is a valid encoding name for Emacs, but it's not according to the IANA standard, which Guile -follows; instead, you should use @code{latin1}, which is both understood -by Emacs and dubbed by IANA. +follows; instead, you should use @code{iso-8859-1}, which is both +understood by Emacs and dubbed by IANA (IANA writes it uppercase but +Emacs wants it lowercase and Guile is case insensitive.) For source code, only a subset of all possible character encodings can be interpreted by the built-in source code reader. Only those |