bug#8122: 23.2.94; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) changes indentation behavior for emacsclient

[Steve Revilak]

> If you start the Emacs daemon like this:
>
> emacs  -Q --eval "(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix)" --daemon
>                                          ^^^^^^^^^^
> the problem goes away.

Eli,

As you suggested, I tried changing (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8) to
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-unix).  Indeed, that makes the problem go
away.


> I propose the following change to fix this:
>
> --- lisp/international/mule-cmds.el~0   2011-01-08 12:45:14.000000000 -0500
> +++ lisp/international/mule-cmds.el     2011-02-26 11:32:22.483284753 -0500
> @@ -368,7 +368,8 @@
>                  (coding-system-get coding-system 'ascii-compatible-p)))
>         (setq default-file-name-coding-system coding-system)))
>   (setq default-terminal-coding-system coding-system)
> -  (setq default-keyboard-coding-system coding-system)
> +  (setq default-keyboard-coding-system
> +       (coding-system-change-eol-conversion coding-system 'unix))
>   ;; Preserve eol-type from existing default-process-coding-systems.
>   ;; On non-unix-like systems in particular, these may have been set
>   ;; carefully by the user, or by the startup code, to deal with the


I tested this patch on my system (with "(prefer-coding-system
'utf-8)").  It works.

Thanks for the speedy fix!

Steve

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