[Python-Dev] PEP 263 considered faulty (for some Japanese)

[Stephen J. Turnbull]

>>>>> "Martin" == Martin v Loewis <martin@v.loewis.de> writes:

    Martin> Auto-detection is useful for displaying content to
    Martin> users. It is evil for a programming language.

Thus speaks someone who advocates relying on user-maintained coding
cookies.<wink>

Look, I'll do my best to support PEP 263 for python-mode and make it
automatic and fairly reliable---but mandating use of X?Emacs would be
even less palatable than mandating UTF-8.

I appreciate your efforts in marketing XEmacs.  :-)


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