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bug#10383: 24.0.91; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature) breaks
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Eli Zaretskii |
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bug#10383: 24.0.91; (prefer-coding-system 'utf-8-with-signature) breaks the world |
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Wed, 28 Dec 2011 03:51:38 -0500 |
> From: Kenichi Handa <handa@m17n.org>
> Date: Wed, 28 Dec 2011 17:07:43 +0900
> Cc: 10383@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> 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.
How about making prefer-coding-system display a message suggesting
that the user considers setting default-file-coding-system to utf-8?
> 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).
If we can express this with current facilities, I'd say include that
information in the above-mentioned message.