Re: [PATCH] * etc/NEWS: Announce addition of BOM to utf-8-auto

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Tom Gillespie <tgbugs@gmail.com>
> Date: Sun, 29 Jan 2023 14:56:11 -0500
> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
> 
> >  Encoding with 'utf-8-auto' now correctly produces a byte order mark.
> 
> Much better.
> 
> > Maybe (you assume that people really read all the small print in
> > NEWS?).  But first, could you explain why on earth are you using
> > utf-8-auto _on_encoding_?  It basically makes no sense at all.
> 
> Hah, no, I don't think many people do, but maybe the maintainers
> of some of the more widely used packages might?

I added something to NEWS about this.