Re: utf-16 not auto-detected when finding file

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, Dave Love <address@hidden> writes:

> The encoding of a utf-16 file isn't detected correctly when finding
> the file.

> To reproduce: push 'coding-category-utf-16-le onto
> `coding-category-list', and put "foo" into a new buffer.  C-x h and
> M-x encode-coding-region mule-utf-16le-with-signature.  Then,
> correctly:
>   (detect-coding-region 1 (point-max) t)
>     => mule-utf-16le-with-signature-unix

> Save it to a file as binary and then C-x C-v.  It's detected as
> latin-1 (in a latin-1 locale).  It is read correctly if you specify
> the coding system for C-x C-v.

When you modify coding-category-list by hand, you must call
update-coding-systems-internal.

I've just added a sentent describing that to the docstring
of coding-category-list.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
address@hidden