Re: lisp/ChangeLog coding system

[Eli Zaretskii]

On 29 Apr 2002, Gerd Moellmann wrote:

> Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > Gerd, can you tell what exactly was wrong with the ChageLog before you 
> > fixed it?
> 
> Inserting a new change log entry and trying to save the file lead to
> the ``choose coding system'' dialog.
> 
> The value of buffer-file-coding-system was iso-2022-7bit, and
> find-charset-region on the whole buffer returned `(ascii
> eight-bit-graphic)', I think.
> 
> The change in question is the one from version 1.3763 to 1.3764.

Thanks for the info.  As far as I could see, version 1.3764 is encoded in 
Latin-1, not iso-2022-7bit.  But since there's a ``coding: iso-2022-7bit''
cookie there, buffer-file-coding-system gets set to iso-2022-7bit, and 
Emacs then pops the select-safe-coding-system dialog when you try to save.

The question is how did the file get saved on Michael's machine as 
Latin-1.  Ideas, anyone?

I think we should change save-buffer to pay attention to the coding: 
cookie.  This was discussed long ago (more than a year, IIRC), but never 
got coded.  It's a bad mantra, IMHO, that Emacs produces a file whose 
coding: lies through its teeth.