From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Richard Stallman Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Bug] Issues with format.el: coding system, byte/char confusi on Date: Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:27 -0400 Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Message-ID: References: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855C6@dewdfx17> Reply-To: rms@gnu.org NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1051974439 30973 80.91.224.249 (3 May 2003 15:07:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 3 May 2003 15:07:19 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Sat May 03 17:07:17 2003 Return-path: Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org ([80.91.224.244]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 3.35 #1 (Debian)) id 19Bybd-00083I-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 17:07:17 +0200 Original-Received: from monty-python.gnu.org ([199.232.76.173]) by quimby.gnus.org with esmtp (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 19Bydi-0001Ly-00 for ; Sat, 03 May 2003 17:09:26 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19Bya7-000566-07 for emacs-devel@quimby.gnus.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:05:43 -0400 Original-Received: from list by monty-python.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByYO-0004Zb-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:56 -0400 Original-Received: from mail by monty-python.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByY4-00040B-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:38 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([199.232.76.164]) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.10.13) id 19ByXv-0003Zh-00 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:27 -0400 Original-Received: from rms by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.10) id 19ByXv-0000qk-00; Sat, 03 May 2003 11:03:27 -0400 Original-To: "Wedler, Christoph" In-reply-to: <67B8CED503F3D511BB9F0008C75DAD66054855C6@dewdfx17> (christoph.wedler@sap.com) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1b5 Precedence: list List-Id: Emacs development discussions. List-Help: List-Post: List-Subscribe: , List-Archive: List-Unsubscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+emacs-devel=quimby.gnus.org@gnu.org Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:13651 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:13651 Christoph Wedler wrote: >>> 1. Shouldn't `format-annotate-function' also save the buffer-local >>> variable `buffer-file-coding-system' (as it does with >>> `selective-display' and `enable-multibyte-characters' since v1.38)? Richard Stallman wrote: >> That seems plausible, but one ought to test it. Christoph Wedler wrote: > Currently, I do it in the format-encode function of my package X-Symbol > since July 2002 (it wouldn't work without), but I think this should be > done in general. What do you think? How about writing a patch to do this in general, and trying it out for a while? If it works well for you, we can install it.