Re: emacs silently ignores buffer file encoding?

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Miles Bader <address@hidden> writes:

> (1) Start emacs -Q
> (2) Visit "/tmp/fff"
> (3) Insert the following chars: "θϑΘ"
> (4) Set the buffer file encoding to latin1 with: C-x C-m f latin-1 RET
> (5) Save the buffer: C-x C-s

> For me, "/tmp/fff" is saved sucessfully, with no error or prompt, using
> an encoding of utf-8 -- despite my having explicitly requested latin-1.

> This doesn't seem right...

I agree.  I'll work on it if nobody else is working on it.

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Kenichi Handa
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