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> Yoshiki Ohshima <Yoshiki.Ohshima at acm.org> wrote:
> >   We could add a header line to a file.  How do you want to make it look like?
> > Probably, a line like:
> > 'encoding: ''mac-roman'''!
> > or such?
> 
> But for the fileout format in particular, this should surely  be a
> message send.

  I thought of this, too.  But the problem is the forward
compatibility.  A fileout from new version should be legal for the
older ones as long as the code doesn't use non-ASCII characters.

> I don't know who it should be sent to, unfortunately.  It
> should eventually get sent to the TextFile that is doing the loading.
> 
> Perhaps the simple:
> 
> 	fileInStream encoding: 'mac-roman' !
> 
> 
> There's no real reason that fileouts shouln't have a few predefined
> variables.

  Yes, it is somewhat like Emacs' mechanism.

-- Yoshiki