bug#17575: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS

bug#17575: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS

[Roland Winkler]

etc/NEWS contains the line

** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

Yet for me, emacs -Q uses the wrong coding system, so that I get

** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

It seems that etc/NEWS should use a file-local variable to specify
its coding system.



In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2014-05-12 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix

Major mode: Outline

bug#17575: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS

[Paul Eggert]

Thanks, I fixed that in emacs-24 bzr 117150, along with four other 
instances of the same problem that I found, and am marking this bug as done.

I didn't adjust files taken from Gnulib, though, as it's not worth the 
hassle of maintaining a separate version of these files just for this 
reason.  (The Gnulib folks switched to UTF-8 source code long ago and 
aren't looking back.)  So you'll still see a problem with reading 
Andreas Grünbacher's name in the comments in lib/qcopy-acl.c, 
lib/acl-internal.h, and lib/file-has-acl.c.

Also, there are two tiny ASCII-only files (doc/misc/gnus-overrides.texi, 
nextstep/Cocoa/Emacs.base/Contents/PkgInfo) which Emacs in a Latin-9 
locale for some reason decides should be iso-latin-9 rather than utf-8. 
  I dunno why that would be, but I assume you won't be editing those 
files so it should be OK.