Re: locale encoding and core functions

[John W. Eaton]

On 3/9/19 2:24 PM, Andrew Janke wrote:

> The idea of running arbitrary code in a pre-code-reading context is kind 
> of scary to me. Especially because relative execution time & environment 
> of this may depend on what order source files from different directories 
> get called & loaded in. My gut says to stick with a predefined set of 
> settings/options.

Yeah.  Long ago, Emacs would execute arbitrary code without asking.  Now 
it asks before doing that and allows ways to make it happen 
automatically.  But for Octave I also think we can just allow a limited 
number of settings.

jwe