Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 20:15:52 +0300
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> 
> > From: Ted Zlatanov <address@hidden>
> > Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2011 11:53:18 -0500
> > 
> > >> Could you help me (or point me to the right examples) to:
> > >> 
> > >> - always create/write a file in UTF-8 on every platform
> > 
> > EZ> You mean, force Emacs to encode .authinfo in UTF-8 when creating it?
> > EZ> I guess that's the job for file-coding-system-alist.
> > 
> > So I would just override that when writing the netrc/authinfo file.

It may be worthwhile to add this permanently to the alist we maintain
in Emacs.

> > I can't imagine any value in letting the user override the UTF-8
> > encoding, can you?
> 
> No, I cannot.

That said, users can always override if they want with "C-x RET c".