Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?)

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:46:58 +0100 (CET)
> From: Mark Kettenis <mark.kettenis@xs4all.nl>
> CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org
> 
> > 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'.

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 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?