Re: selecting an inapplicable coding-system

[Stefan]

>> C-x RET f us-ascii RET
>> C-x C-s
>> 
>> the file is saved in latin-1.  This is because when saving
>> buffer-file-coding-system is just one of several coding-systems used.

> Isn't this a side effect of the feature that if the encoding that is
> ``natural'' in your language environment can encode the text, Emacs
> silently uses that encoding?

Yes it is and the "silently" is the problem here, since you just specified
manually that you want *another* encoding.


        Stefan