From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40889 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Josh Huber Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: file coding for ChangeLog? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 10:04:40 -0500 Organization: Mind your own business, you silly arthur king! Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: <874rmoa7sn.fsf@paradoxical.net> References: <878zc54if3.fsf@paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176373 3318 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:59:33 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:59:33 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 18804 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 15:06:14 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 15:06:14 -0000 Original-Received: from sina.hpc.uh.edu ([129.7.128.10] ident=lists) by malifon.math.uh.edu with esmtp (Exim 3.20 #1) id 16GLnu-0001a8-00; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:05:14 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:05:03 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: from sclp3.sclp.com (qmailr@sclp3.sclp.com [209.196.61.66]) by sina.hpc.uh.edu (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id JAA08500 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 09:04:50 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 18792 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 18787 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Original-Received: from quimby.gnus.org (HELO quimby2.netfonds.no) (195.204.10.66) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 15:04:56 -0000 Original-Received: from news by quimby2.netfonds.no with local (Exim 3.12 #1 (Debian)) id 16GLxM-0000mL-00 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 16:15:00 +0100 Original-To: ding@gnus.org Original-Path: not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnus.ding Original-Lines: 23 Original-NNTP-Posting-Host: lowell.missioncriticallinux.com Original-X-Trace: quimby2.netfonds.no 1008688500 2996 208.51.139.16 (18 Dec 2001 15:15:00 GMT) Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@quimby2.netfonds.no Original-NNTP-Posting-Date: 18 Dec 2001 15:15:00 GMT X-Go-Away: or I shall taunt you a second time! X-PGP-KeyID: 6B21489A X-Fingerprint: 61F0 6138 BE7B FEBF A223 E9D1 BFE1 2065 6B21 489A X-Request-PGP: finger:huber@db.debian.org Mail-Copies-To: nobody User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) XEmacs/21.4 (Civil Service, powerpc-debian-linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:Cln+1xlXP/DCa/LOBkEUXJcQp+U= Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40889 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40889 Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai Großjohann) writes: > In Emacs, this means that the file is opened and decoded using the > default coding system, and only later is the coding system set to > what you specify. And if Emacs decides to use UTF-8 (say) for > decoding, then you lose. Ah yes, I hadn't thought of this. > Please use "coding" with Emacs. Yes, and after reading the documentation for XEmacs, it's supposed to support the coding tag, so it appears this is a problem on my end. sorry for the confusion. I've changed buffer-file-coding-system back to coding, but left the conversion to Local Variables... Sorry for the noise...I'll see if it's a configuration problem here or a bug in my Emacs. :( -- Josh Huber