Re: po file charset via auto-coding-functions

[Juri Linkov]

>> Wouldn't it be better to use the same syntax for members of
>> all supported archivers (gzip, zip, tar)?
>> Currently `buffer-file-name' of the visited archive member
>> uses three different syntaxes:
>> "/home/handa/temp.po.gz"
>> "/home/handa/temp.zip:vi.po"
>> "/home/handa/temp.tar!vi.po"
>> After choosing one syntax, `buffer-file-name' would be:
>> "/home/handa/temp.po.gz!temp.po"
>> "/home/handa/temp.zip!vi.po"
>> "/home/handa/temp.tar!vi.po"
>
> Or how about a URL-compatible syntax:
>
> arc://home/handa/temp.po.gz#temp.po
> arc://home/handa/temp.gip#vi.po
> arc://home/handa/temp.tar#vi.po

There is no such standard URI scheme as `arc'.  But perhaps `#' in
`file' is appropriate to address archive members:

file://home/handa/temp.po.gz#temp.po
file://home/handa/temp.gip#vi.po
file://home/handa/temp.tar#vi.po

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/