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Eli Zaretskii <eliz@is.elta.co.il> writes:

> On 24 Nov 2002, D. Goel wrote:
> 
> > [1] It seems I cannot get emacs to follow a system I want (utf-8) by
> > default.  It still tries other systems and then shows me utf-8 among
> > the list of choices.  What am i doing wrong?
> 
> How did you try to achieve that?  The right way is to use 
> prefer-coding-system, I think.

ahh, i was not using that.  I was trying to setq
default-buffer-coding-system. 




Thanks for all your other hints, Eli.  Will try those out.