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bug#4712: File encoding
From: |
Stefan Monnier |
Subject: |
bug#4712: File encoding |
Date: |
Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:16:32 -0400 |
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Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:
>>
>> > value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
>> > locale-coding-system: utf-8
>>
>> > indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
>> > there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
>> > switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.
>>
>> The `coding' cookie trumps any such setting, since when we read the
>> file, we will blindly obey the cookie without paying any attention to
>> the user's locale.
> Right, and we did:
> Selected encoding mule-utf-8-unix disagrees with iso-8859-1-unix
> specified by file contents.
The fact that we even consider utf-8 is the bug, it means that the
coding cookie didn't actually "trump" the locale setting.
Stefan
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- bug#4712: File encoding, Andreas Schwab, 2009/10/14
- bug#4712: File encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/14
- bug#4712: File encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/14
- bug#4712: File encoding, Eli Zaretskii, 2009/10/14
- bug#4712: File encoding,
Stefan Monnier <=
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- bug#4712: File encoding, Andreas Schwab, 2009/10/15
- bug#4712: File encoding, Stefan Monnier, 2009/10/17