Re: Emacs refusing to switch to iso-latin-1

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Sébastien Vauban <zthjwsqqafhv@spammotel.com> writes:

> Hi,
>
>>>> BTW, here's a sample file (let's call it `test.xml') that
>>>> exhibits the described problem:
>>>>
>>>>     <enumType name="test">
>>>>       <pair value="0">- Sélectionner -</pair>
>>>>       <pair value="11">Dû à l'entreprise</pair>
>>>>       <pair value="12">Stagiaire occupé</pair>
>>>>       <pair value="13">Autres</pair>
>>>>     </enumType>
>>>>
>>>> Thanks for your help!
>>>
>>> Huh? That file does not contain an encoding header, and so
>>> according to the XML standard, it _has_ to be encoded in
>>> utf-8. Emacs gets this right.
>
> I did not know about that.
>
> But, for me, this does not explain why my request to "use
> iso-latin-1-unix for saving this buffer" is not respected.

Because your file does not start with
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>

Is that so hard to understand?

XML without such a header is encoded in utf-8, period.  Any conforming
XML interpreter will _barf_ if you were able to save in latin-1.

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