dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

[doclist]

I have a directory containing many files which use a different coding
system than my default. I would like to set them all to open with the
proper coding system.

I tried using

(dir-locals-set-class-variables
 'euc-jp-encoding
 '((nil . ((buffer-file-coding-system . euc-jp-unix)
           (coding-system-for-read . euc-jp-unix)))))
     
which correctly sets the coding system when the file is opened, as
evidenced by the modeline, but the glyphs are not correctly
rendered. They are however rendered correctly when using
universal-coding-system-argument to open the file.

I suspect my problem is that coding-system-for-read is applied after the
file is opened.

What is the correct way to handle file coding for files in a sub-directory?

Re: dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

[Stefan Monnier]

> What is the correct way to handle file coding for files in a sub-directory?

Try file-name-coding-system


        Stefan

Re: dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

[doclist]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> What is the correct way to handle file coding for files in a sub-directory?
>
> Try file-name-coding-system

The documentation says that it is the "coding system for encoding file
names". I want set the coding system for file *contents*.

Re: dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

[doclist]

Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

>> What is the correct way to handle file coding for files in a sub-directory?
>
> Try file-name-coding-system

There seems to be a typo in the documentation string for
file-name-coding-system. It reads

  If it is nil, `default-file-name-coding-system' (which see) is used.

The "(which see)" part seems unintelligble to me.

Re: dir-locals and buffer-file-coding-system

[Joost Kremers]

doclist wrote:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
> There seems to be a typo in the documentation string for
> file-name-coding-system. It reads
>
>   If it is nil, `default-file-name-coding-system' (which see) is used.
>
> The "(which see)" part seems unintelligble to me.

it's not a typo, it's a literat translation of the latin phrase "quod vide", and
occurs quite often in emacs documentation.


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