From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
To: Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com>
Cc: 10383@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#10383: 24.0.91; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature) breaks the world
Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:07:43 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <tl7ipl15dbk.fsf@m17n.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAHZoxq8wxViADRk+rgq5eWEwNcB8FV-F5sxbZLjqjfMtDwgVOg@mail.gmail.com> (message from Eric Hanchrow on Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:23:58 -0800)
In article <CAHZoxq8wxViADRk+rgq5eWEwNcB8FV-F5sxbZLjqjfMtDwgVOg@mail.gmail.com>, Eric Hanchrow <eric.hanchrow@gmail.com> writes:
> Type the following in *scratch*, then C-x C-e:
> (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature)
> Now type C-x d.
> You'll see an error:
> Cannot open load file: dired
> You will soon find that your emacs is entirely broken, since no files
> can be loaded.
This is because utf-8-with-signature is recognized as ASCII
compatible and thus default-file-coding-system is also set
to it. I've just committed a fix to make
utf-8-with-signature not ASCII compatible. Please try
again with the latest trunk code.
By the way, as a result, now
(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature)
does not change default-file-coding-system. I'm not sure
what is the intention of preferring utf-8-with-signature,
one may want default-file-coding-system be set to utf-8 in
such a case. But, doing that automatically is too
heuristic. Another possibility is that what actually wanted
is such a coding as utf-8-with-signature-on-decoding-only
(i.e. on decoding, BOM is recognized, but on encoding, don't
produce BOM).
---
Kenichi Handa
handa@m17n.org
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Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2011-12-27 22:23 bug#10383: 24.0.91; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature) breaks the world Eric Hanchrow
2011-12-28 8:07 ` Kenichi Handa [this message]
2011-12-28 8:51 ` Eli Zaretskii
2011-12-28 10:49 ` Stefan Monnier
2011-12-29 23:27 ` Eric Hanchrow
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