From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7138 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2009 21:06:34 -0000 Received: (qmail 7127 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jan 2009 21:06:33 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=-0.9 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout5.012.net.il (HELO mtaout5.012.net.il) (84.95.2.13) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:28 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout5.012.net.il by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KD400D00D4SVF00@i_mtaout5.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:25 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.238.249]) by i_mtaout5.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KD4003BHDANZ6G0@i_mtaout5.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 23:06:23 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 21:06:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?) In-reply-to: <200901071005.n07A5qgP008554@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kettenis Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: References: <20090103061325.GB31571@adacore.com> <200901031022.n03AMq5c027637@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901032356.n03NuSbX005424@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901062125.n06LPZUc011511@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901062246.n06Mkwp6008750@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> <200901071005.n07A5qgP008554@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> X-IsSubscribed: yes Mailing-List: contact gdb-help@sourceware.org; run by ezmlm Precedence: bulk List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: , Sender: gdb-owner@sourceware.org X-SW-Source: 2009-01/txt/msg00036.txt.bz2 > Date: Wed, 7 Jan 2009 11:05:52 +0100 (CET) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org > > > In which case Emacs uses your locale to set up things. I'm guessing > > that your locale is not a UTF-8 one, probably Latin-1 or Latin-9? > > I'm using the locale that intended to be used on a UNIX > system: the "C" locale ;). The "C" locale has Latin-1 as its default for non-ASCII, IIRC. So that's why Emacs tries to decode the file as Latin-1, when there's no `coding' cookie. > > > > > 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. > > > > "Obviously"? You mean, Ludo's name is not displayed correctly on your > > system even after the `coding' cookie was added? > > Yes, that's what I have been trying to tell you in the last couple of mails. Sorry, I must have missed that. Please tell again: is it in the GUI session or on a text-only terminal?