"Andy Wingo" wrote: >> Many of my files start with ";;; -*- coding: utf-8-unix -*-". > > What is this? Is it general enough to add to Guile's > name->encoding tables?
It is an Emacs coding, UTF-8 with the suffix "-unix" (explained in the Emacs info doc node "Coding Systems") which means no end-of-line conversion and newline to separate lines. -- Marco Maggi