Re: smtpmail and ~/.authinfo

[Stefan Monnier]

>>> You mean, force Emacs to encode .authinfo in UTF-8 when creating it?
>>> I guess that's the job for file-coding-system-alist.
SM> Or adding a -*- coding: utf-8 -*- cookie to the file.
> That's not standard, so a netrc/authinfo file created by someone else
> would not have it and we're back to guessing.  Better to guess on read,
> enforce UTF-8 on write IMO.

For the "read, modify, write", if the guess is wrong, the write will not
magically be fixed by using utf-8.

What do the files that we generated until now contain?  utf-8?
something else?


        Stefan