Re: Emacs24 coding system problems

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Andreas Schwab <address@hidden>
> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 09:39:02 +0100
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> Uday Reddy <address@hidden> writes:
> 
> > I have a problem with Emacs 24 that is a bit mystifying.  I manage to put it
> > in a state, by using VM, where
> >
> >   - enable-multibyte-characters has the global value of t, but
> >   - every time I visit a file, it gets turned off locally.
> 
> Maybe you have a non-nil global value of coding-system-for-read, or
> file-coding-system-alist is clobbered somehow.

Or maybe the file in question has undecodeable byte sequences.  Do you
see "t" (which stands for 'raw-text') in the mode line, per chance?