From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (qmail 7539 invoked by alias); 7 Jan 2009 04:19:23 -0000 Received: (qmail 7530 invoked by uid 22791); 7 Jan 2009 04:19:22 -0000 X-SWARE-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.3 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_40,SARE_SUB_ENC_UTF8,SPF_SOFTFAIL X-Spam-Check-By: sourceware.org Received: from mtaout2.012.net.il (HELO mtaout2.012.net.il) (84.95.2.4) by sourceware.org (qpsmtpd/0.43rc1) with ESMTP; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:19:15 +0000 Received: from conversion-daemon.i_mtaout2.012.net.il by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) id <0KD300M002CR5Q00@i_mtaout2.012.net.il> for gdb@sourceware.org; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:19:15 +0200 (IST) Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.127.238.249]) by i_mtaout2.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2004.12) with ESMTPA id <0KD3005JO2NO8WB1@i_mtaout2.012.net.il>; Wed, 07 Jan 2009 06:19:15 +0200 (IST) Date: Wed, 07 Jan 2009 04:19:00 -0000 From: Eli Zaretskii Subject: Re: "coding: utf-8" emacs local variable in ChangeLog (?) In-reply-to: <200901062246.n06Mkwp6008750@brahms.sibelius.xs4all.nl> To: Mark Kettenis Cc: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org Reply-to: Eli Zaretskii Message-id: MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT 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> 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/msg00029.txt.bz2 > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 23:46:58 +0100 (CET) > From: Mark Kettenis > CC: brobecker@adacore.com, gdb@sourceware.org, ludo@gnu.org > > > Date: Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:59:29 +0200 > > From: Eli Zaretskii > > > > > Date: Tue, 6 Jan 2009 22:25:36 +0100 (CET) > > > From: Mark Kettenis > > > 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?