From: Richard M. Stallman <rms@gnu.org>
Date: Thu, 23 Apr 1998 01:34:49 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: (file-coding-system-alist): Use emacs-mule for .elc files.
X-Git-Tag: emacs-20.3~1363
X-Git-Url: http://git.eshelyaron.com/gitweb/?a=commitdiff_plain;h=678dc7ec25b03c79957daba0e943cfe6189aea5a;p=emacs.git

(file-coding-system-alist): Use emacs-mule for .elc files.
---

diff --git a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
index a083b959e56..41ac7b7971a 100644
--- a/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
+++ b/lisp/international/mule-conf.el
@@ -309,12 +309,13 @@
 ;; The other coding-systems are defined in each language specific
 ;; section of languages.el.
 
-;; Setting coding system `undecided' for reading any files.  Though,
-;; compiled Emacs Lisp files (*.elc) should never be decoded nor
-;; encoded.  tar files too.
+;; Normally, set coding system to `undecided' before reading a file.
+;; Compiled Emacs Lisp files (*.elc) are not decoded at all,
+;; but we regard them as containing multibyte characters.
+;; Tar files are not decoded at all, but we treat them as raw bytes.
 
 (setq file-coding-system-alist
-      '(("\\.elc$" . (no-conversion . no-conversion))
+      '(("\\.elc$" . (emacs-mule . emacs-mule))
 	("\\(\\`\\|/\\)loaddefs.el$" . (no-conversion . no-conversion))
 	("\\.tar$" . (no-conversion . no-conversion))
 	("" . (undecided . nil))))