Re: Local variable coding-system is supposed to be unsafe in GNU Emacs 23.0.0

[Stefan Monnier]

> Is there any reason to assume a threat coming from for example:

>       % Local Variables:
>       % mode: LaTeX
>       % fill-column: 99999
>       % coding-system: iso-latin-9
>       % End:

Of course there is: since `coding-system' is not a variable known to Emacs,
it can only assume that it's a variable used by some third party package and
that the third party package did not explicitly mark it as safe, thus it's
potentially unsafe.

Of course, a better answer is probably "you have an error: it should say
`coding' rather than `coding-system'".


        Stefan