Re: Emacs24 coding system problems

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 02 Nov 2012 10:51:23 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > 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?

But if this happens with _every_ file you visit, then my suggestion is
not relevant, obviously.