> Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:59:29 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> 
> > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:25:36 +0100 (CET)
> > From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> > CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org
> > 
> > This is what C-u C-x says about the funny character in Ludo's name:
> > 
> >     character: Ã (0303, 195, 0xc3)
> >       charset: eight-bit-graphic (8-bit graphic char (0xA0..0xFF))
> 
> That's again because your defaults are set to interpret this as
> something other than UTF-8.

They're not.  This is on a standard emacs 21.4 and there is *nothing*
in my .emacs that doesn't touch anything related to 'coding'.

> > I'm not saying that adding the `coding' cookie is a problem.  I'm
> > arguing that turning ChangeLog into a UTF-8 encoded file was a bad
> > decision, since there are enough systems where it will not be properly
> > displayed.
> 
> And I'm arguing that adding the coding cookie will cause this to be
> displayed properly in Emacs.

Obviously that is not true on all systems.