bug#4712: File encoding

[Andreas Schwab]

Elmar Zander <ezander@valkyrie.sc.cs.tu-bs.de> writes:

> my source file begins with the following lines
>
>   #!/usr/bin/perl
>   # -*- coding: iso-8859-1 -*-
>   #
>
> I definitely need the latin-1 encoding here because the script is supposed 
> to do some non-standard translations from latin-1 to html entities. However, 
> whenever I try to save the file I get the message:
>
>   Selected encoding mule-utf-8-unix disagrees with iso-8859-1-unix specified 
> by file contents.  
>   Really save (else edit coding cookies and try again)? (yes or no) 

That means that the buffer contains characters that cannot be encoded in
iso-8859-1-unix.

Andreas.

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