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Martin Buchholz <mrb@Eng.Sun.COM> writes:

>>>>>> "sb" == Steven L Baur <steve@miranova.com> writes:

sb> Won't this make us irrevocably bytecode incompatible with Emacs
sb> 20/Mule?

> We already are.  Files with Mule characters, encoded using
> escape-quoted, are unlikely to be readable by not-XEmacs 20.

> The escape-quoted coding system is a Ben invention.

And recent Ben stuff is held in limbo by Sun's refusal to sign
copyright assignment papers. :-(

This sucks and doesn't guard XEmacs/Mule against Emacs/Mule
bytecompiled .elcs.
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