Re: url-retrieve-synchronously and coding

[Stefan Monnier]

> If I do something like this
>          (setq buffer (url-retrieve-synchronously url))

> and the contents of the buffer begins with

>   HTTP/1.1 200 OK
>   Content-Type: text/xml
>   X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
>   Connection: close

>   <?xml version = "1.0" encoding="UTF-8" standalone="yes"?><!--

>   Content-type: fix-mhtml
--> 

> should not then the buffer file coding system be utf-8?

I don't think so, because url-retrieve-synchronously handles the HTTP
part of the protocol only.  Maybe you're thinking of url-insert-file-contents?


        Stefan