no confirmation that email sent when setting coding system

[Robert J. Chassell]

Using a recent CVS snapshot, 2002 Aug  1,
GNU Emacs 21.3.50.144 (i686-pc-linux-gnu, X toolkit)
configured using `configure --with-type1 --prefix=/usr/local --with-sound=yes'
with a large .emacs file.

Sometimes (as with two recent bug reports to Kai), Mail mode asks me
which coding system to use (I have been choosing the default it
offers, which in this case has been utf-8).  

After I choose the coding sytem, Emacs pops back the mail buffer,
marked as changed (i.e., ** in the mode line), whereas the usual
consequence of sending a message is to mark the buffer as unchanged
(i.e., -- in the mode line).  

Also, in the usual course of events, an old *mail* buffer that is
marked unchanged is reused; but in this circumstance, it is not.
(This email message is being written in buffer *mail*<4> !)

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: nil
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: C
  locale-coding-system: nil
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

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    Robert J. Chassell                  address@hidden
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