From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "Eli Zaretskii" Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: selecting an inapplicable coding-system Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:00:13 +0200 Message-ID: <01c4cb99$Blat.v2.2.2$4da04380@zahav.net.il> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: deer.gmane.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7BIT X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1100581391 22014 80.91.229.6 (16 Nov 2004 05:03:11 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 16 Nov 2004 05:03:11 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Nov 16 06:03:06 2004 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by deer.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 1CTvUf-00014s-00 for ; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 06:03:05 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvdP-0000pJ-4o for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:12:07 -0500 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvdI-0000pE-BX for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvdH-0000p2-Vu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:12:00 -0500 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTvdH-0000oz-Te for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:11:59 -0500 Original-Received: from [192.114.186.24] (helo=legolas.inter.net.il) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTvUA-0002gi-Uu for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Tue, 16 Nov 2004 00:02:35 -0500 Original-Received: from zaretski (pns03-194-94.inter.net.il [80.230.194.94]) by legolas.inter.net.il (MOS 3.5.5-GR) with ESMTP id DCQ25572 (AUTH halo1); Tue, 16 Nov 2004 07:02:26 +0200 (IST) Original-To: Stefan Monnier X-Mailer: emacs 21.3.50 (via feedmail 8 I) and Blat ver 2.2.2 In-reply-to: (message from Stefan Monnier on Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:25:12 -0500) 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: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:29907 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:29907 > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 18:25:12 -0500 > > > If I open a new file, insert  and then do the following: > > C-x RET f us-ascii RET > C-x C-s > > the file is saved in latin-1. This is because when saving > buffer-file-coding-system is just one of several coding-systems used. Isn't this a side effect of the feature that if the encoding that is ``natural'' in your language environment can encode the text, Emacs silently uses that encoding?