From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: emacs silently ignores buffer file encoding? Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1234449280 32132 80.91.229.12 (12 Feb 2009 14:34:40 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:34:40 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Miles Bader Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Feb 12 15:35:54 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1LXcfE-0003jM-VQ for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 15:35:41 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43036 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXcdv-0002w5-0P for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:34:19 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXcZ7-0008Kf-O3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:22 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1LXcZ3-0008JS-FD for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:19 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=52156 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1LXcZ1-0008J8-Um for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:16 -0500 Original-Received: from ironport2-out.pppoe.ca ([206.248.154.182]:44626 helo=ironport2-out.teksavvy.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1LXcZ0-0002rJ-3v; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:14 -0500 X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Filtered: true X-IronPort-Anti-Spam-Result: AgMFAPvAk0lFxIvi/2dsb2JhbACBbtIkhBcGgyc X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="4.38,197,1233550800"; d="scan'208";a="33764167" Original-Received: from 69-196-139-226.dsl.teksavvy.com (HELO pastel.home) ([69.196.139.226]) by ironport2-out.teksavvy.com with ESMTP; 12 Feb 2009 09:29:11 -0500 Original-Received: by pastel.home (Postfix, from userid 20848) id 5B4988222; Thu, 12 Feb 2009 09:29:11 -0500 (EST) In-Reply-To: (Miles Bader's message of "Thu, 12 Feb 2009 14:25:33 +0900") User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.0.60 (gnu/linux) X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:109022 Archived-At: > (1) Start emacs -Q > (2) Visit "/tmp/fff" > (3) Insert the following chars: "=CE=B8=CF=91=CE=98" > (4) Set the buffer file encoding to latin1 with: C-x C-m f latin-1 RET > (5) Save the buffer: C-x C-s > For me, "/tmp/fff" is saved sucessfully, with no error or prompt, using > an encoding of utf-8 -- despite my having explicitly requested latin-1. > This doesn't seem right... Indeed, please post it to the bug-tracker: IIRC this has been reported before, but got lost. Stefan