Re: propagating a coding setting across source files

[Mike Gran]

>Not when loading a file with Latin-1 characters:

>
>> cat aa.scm
>(define c #\ä)
>
>> guile
>GNU Guile 2.0.3
>...
>scheme@(guile-user)> (load "aa.scm")
>;;; compiling /home/s/aa.scm
>;;; WARNING: compilation of /home/s/aa.scm failed:
>;;; ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr: /home/s/aa.scm:1:13: unknown character 
>name 
>ERROR: In procedure primitive-load:
>ERROR: In procedure scm_lreadr: /home/s/aa.scm:1:13: unknown character name 


I guess you're right.  Looks like, at some point, the default for files with
no 'coding:' line got hard set to UTF-8 in 'scm_primitive_load' and 
'compile-file'
and friends.


At first, I thought you could do something with %load-hook, or by setting
the %default-port-encoding, but that isn't going to work either.

No workaround is obvious to me.  Hrm.  Unfortunate.

-Mike