From: "Lennart Borgman (gmail)" <lennart.borgman@gmail.com>
Cc: Vincent Lefevre <vincent@vinc17.org>, emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Should `auto-coding-functions' be mode-specific?
Date: Tue, 02 Jan 2007 23:14:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <459AD952.9040706@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <87ejqd88iv.fsf@pacem.orebokech.com>
Romain Francoise wrote:
> I received a bug report from a Debian user (CC'd) who was surprised
> to see that Emacs 22 opens one of his utf-8-encoded files as ASCII,
> because it contains the following HTML snippet near the top:
>
> | <!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN">
> | <HTML><HEAD>
> | <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=us-ascii">
> | </HEAD>
> | <BODY>
> | </BODY></HTML>
>
> The file itself is not an HTML file, but Emacs still uses the
> encoding specified in the HTML code to set the encoding. (This is
> caused by `sgml-html-meta-auto-coding-function', which is present by
> default in the list of `auto-coding-functions' -- the functions are
> tried in the first 1K or last 3K bytes of the buffer.)
>
> I replied that the encoding can be forced using a -*- coding: .. -*-
> cookie, but the submitter argues that the functions to get the
> encoding from the file's contents should only be enabled in modes
> where the content of the buffer is supposed to match -- i.e. don't
> use the META header function in buffers that aren't in html-mode (or
> equivalent).
>
> What do people think?
>
> (See http://bugs.debian.org/404236 for the discussion.)
>
>
IIt seems clear to me that this must be mode specific. Just a silly
example: Suppose someone saves something like the html-snippet above in
a customization.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-01-02 22:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-01-02 20:43 Should `auto-coding-functions' be mode-specific? Romain Francoise
2007-01-02 22:14 ` Lennart Borgman (gmail) [this message]
2007-01-03 0:54 ` Kevin Ryde
2007-01-03 3:34 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-03 12:09 ` Vincent Lefevre
2007-01-04 2:31 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-04 4:14 ` Kenichi Handa
2007-01-04 19:02 ` Romain Francoise
2007-01-04 22:33 ` Richard Stallman
2007-01-05 18:04 ` Romain Francoise
2007-01-03 5:26 ` Kevin Rodgers
2007-01-03 14:18 ` Ralf Mattes
2007-01-04 8:44 ` Romain Francoise
2007-01-06 23:33 ` Juri Linkov
2007-01-07 13:47 ` Romain Francoise
2007-01-07 16:22 ` Juri Linkov
2007-01-08 19:46 ` Romain Francoise
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