Re: write-region saves in emacs-mule coding system thus unreadable to other programs

[Kai Großjohann]

On Sun, 8 Jul 2001, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> So I'd say it's up to the application (message-mode) to set the
> buffer to the right coding system, or else it should intercept
> write-region and bind coding-system-for-write to an appropriate
> value.

I'm guessing that emacs-mule is a good coding system for message mode
buffers because then Gnus can be sure that all characters that Emacs
can encode will be represented in the auto-save files.  (I use Latin-1
as the default encoding, and what happens when I happen to write a
Chinese email?  Gnus might get really confused if it didn't use
emacs-mule all the time for message buffers.)

But of course it's inconvenient that write-region uses the `wrong'
coding system by default.  Hm.  I don't know what to do about that.

kai
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