From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.io/gmane.emacs.gnus.general/40885 Path: main.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Kai.Grossjohann@CS.Uni-Dortmund.DE (Kai =?iso-8859-1?q?Gro=DFjohann?=) Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.gnus.general Subject: Re: file coding for ChangeLog? Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:19:09 +0100 Sender: owner-ding@hpc.uh.edu Message-ID: References: <878zc54if3.fsf@paradoxical.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: coloc-standby.netfonds.no Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: main.gmane.org 1035176370 3304 80.91.224.250 (21 Oct 2002 04:59:30 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@main.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Oct 2002 04:59:30 +0000 (UTC) Return-Path: Original-Received: (qmail 12599 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 10:20:05 -0000 Original-Received: from malifon.math.uh.edu (mail@129.7.128.13) by mastaler.com with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 10:20:05 -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 16GHLp-0000Lj-00; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:19:57 -0600 Original-Received: by sina.hpc.uh.edu (TLB v0.09a (1.20 tibbs 1996/10/09 22:03:07)); Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:19:45 -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 EAA07383 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 04:19:35 -0600 (CST) Original-Received: (qmail 12589 invoked by alias); 18 Dec 2001 10:19:42 -0000 Original-Received: (qmail 12584 invoked from network); 18 Dec 2001 10:19:42 -0000 Original-Received: from waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de (129.217.4.42) by gnus.org with SMTP; 18 Dec 2001 10:19:42 -0000 Original-Received: from lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lothlorien [129.217.19.67]) by waldorf.cs.uni-dortmund.de with ESMTP id fBIAJFb04534 for ; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:19:15 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: from lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (lucy [129.217.19.80]) by lothlorien.cs.uni-dortmund.de id LAA10510; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:19:10 +0100 (MET) Original-Received: by lucy.cs.uni-dortmund.de (Postfix, from userid 6104) id CB7C93B14F; Tue, 18 Dec 2001 11:19:09 +0100 (CET) Original-To: ding@gnus.org In-Reply-To: <878zc54if3.fsf@paradoxical.net> (Josh Huber's message of "Fri, 14 Dec 2001 16:10:24 -0500") Original-Lines: 25 User-Agent: Gnus/5.090004 (Oort Gnus v0.04) Emacs/21.1.50 (i686-pc-linux-gnu) Precedence: list X-Majordomo: 1.94.jlt7 Xref: main.gmane.org gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40885 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.gnus.general:40885 Josh Huber writes: > Hey, at the bottom of the lisp/ChangeLog file, there is this: > > ;; Local Variables: > ;; coding: iso-2022-7bit > ;; End: > > This seems to only work in GNU Emacs, but not with XEmacs. Would > anyone object to me changing this to: > > ;; Local Variables: > ;; buffer-file-coding-system: iso-2022-7bit > ;; End: 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. Please use "coding" with Emacs. kai -- Simplification good! Oversimplification bad! (Larry Wall)