Re: "coding" in file variable list not effective

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2004 16:41:24 +0100
> From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?S=E9bastien_Kirche?= <address@hidden>
> 
> To avoid typing the whole "C-x ret c iso-latin-9-mac C-x C-f filename" 
> for further editing, i placed the setting "coding: iso-latin-9-mac" in 
> my variable list at the end of file.
> 
> I found that it has no effect : M-x describe-current-coding-system 
> shows that i am still in iso-latin-1 which is my default file coding 
> system.
> But if I place the setting in the first line between the -*- marks, the 
> coding is used accordingly.

Please post the shortest file that can be used to reproduce this
problem.  It seems to work on my machine, but perhaps the file I used
is somehow different from yours.