From: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de, 4712@emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com
Subject: bug#4712: File encoding
Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2009 11:38:05 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m31vl53sle.fsf@hase.home> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvoco94abh.fsf-monnier+emacsbugreports@gnu.org> (Stefan Monnier's message of "Wed, 14 Oct 2009 23:16:32 -0400")
Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>>> > 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.
Why do you think this is a bug? The designated coding cannot encode the
buffer, so some other encoding must be selected. That's the whole point
of the message. It's the same when you force a coding with C-x C-m C-f,
except that then you get the more detailed message.
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-10-15 9:38 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
2009-10-15 7:20 ` Eli Zaretskii
2009-10-15 9:38 ` Andreas Schwab [this message]
2009-10-17 4:01 ` Stefan Monnier
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