Might be somehow related to bug 57486. That one also doesn't happen to me anymore, though this might be because it got fixed by side-effect, since I have recompiled Emacs several times since then. But that bug happened to me at least twice (with Emacs restarted etc.) on different days. I could immediately tell since our Java application won't even compile if system encoding is not UTF-8. Paul On Wed, 14 Sept 2022 at 20:23, Lars Ingebrigtsen wrote: > Paul Pogonyshev writes: > > > Hm, now I cannot reproduce this anymore. But today I got this bug, > > recompiled Emacs from Git and the bug was still there. Right now I > > tested Emacs 28 in case I managed to switch them accidentally, but > > no, also not there. > > > > So, either I have mixed something up, or this depends on some > > volatile state in TRAMP, e.g. its cache. > > > > I guess you can close the bug. > > Perhaps Michael has some comments here, so we'll wait for him to chime > in before closing, I think. >