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Re: 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead


From: Jason Rumney
Subject: Re: 23.0.60; Defaut encoding for XML files should be undefined (instead of utf-8)
Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2008 09:58:36 +0000
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Stephen J. Turnbull wrote:
Stefan Monnier writes:

Man, don't go there.  XML documents *and fragments* should be presumed
Unicode until the user explictly says otherwise.  Make it easy for the
user to do that, make it as easy as you like (eg, with a variable
containing the regexp ".*\.xml$"), but don't try to guess until the
user asks you to, please.

I think you're misunderstanding. Currently we use utf-8 in absense of a coding tag, even if it causes a decoding error. And when the user explicitly sets the file-coding-system to latin-1, we ignore it and save as utf-8. That is the behaviour we want to change, not the behaviour of defaulting to UTF-8.






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