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From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: schwab@linux-m68k.org, ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de,
	4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4712: File encoding
Date: Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:16:32 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <jwvoco94abh.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83fx9lj0zm.fsf@gnu.org> (Eli Zaretskii's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 20:15:25 +0200")

>> > Maybe so, but this part of the OP's report:
>> 
>> >   value of $LANG: en_AU.UTF-8
>> >   locale-coding-system: utf-8
>> 
>> > indicates that UTF-8 is the "native" encoding on the OP's machine, and
>> > there is an overwhelming user demand for silently and transparently
>> > switch to such a native encoding when we need to select an encoding.
>> 
>> The `coding' cookie trumps any such setting, since when we read the
>> file, we will blindly obey the cookie without paying any attention to
>> the user's locale.

> Right, and we did:

>   Selected encoding mule-utf-8-unix disagrees with iso-8859-1-unix
>   specified by file contents.

The fact that we even consider utf-8 is the bug, it means that the
coding cookie didn't actually "trump" the locale setting.


        Stefan





  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-15  3:16 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-13  9:12 bug#4712: File encoding Elmar Zander
2009-10-14  9:07 ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-14 13:27   ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 14:04     ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 14:33       ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-14 18:11         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-14 15:19       ` Stefan Monnier
2009-10-14 18:15         ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15  3:16           ` Stefan Monnier [this message]
2009-10-15  7:20             ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15  9:38             ` Andreas Schwab
2009-10-17  4:01               ` Stefan Monnier

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