Local variable coding-system is supposed to be unsafe in GNU Emacs 23.0.0

[Peter Dyballa]

Hello!

Is there any reason to assume a threat coming from for example:

        % Local Variables:
        % mode: LaTeX
        % fill-column: 99999
        % coding-system: iso-latin-9
        % End:

In GNU Emacs 23.0.0.1 (powerpc-apple-darwin8.8.0, X toolkit, Xaw3d  
scroll bars)
of 2007-02-03 on Latsche.local
X server distributor `The XFree86 Project, Inc', version 11.0.40400000
configured using `configure  '--without-ns' '--without-carbon' '-- 
with-x' '--without-sound' '--without-pop' '--with-xpm' '--with-jpeg'  
'--with-tiff' '--with-gif' '--with-png' '--enable-locallisppath=/ 
Library/Application Support/Emacs/calendar23:/Library/Application  
Support/Emacs/preview:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex/ 
images:/Library/Application Support/Emacs/auctex:/Library/Application  
Support/Emacs' 'CFLAGS=-pipe -fPIC -mcpu=7450 -mtune=7450 -fast -mpim- 
altivec -ftree-vectorize -foptimize-register-move -freorder-blocks - 
freorder-blocks-and-partition -fthread-jumps -fpeephole -fno- 
crossjumping' 'CPPFLAGS=-no-cpp-precomp -I/usr/include/openssl -I/usr/ 
local/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/include -I/sw/lib/freetype219/ 
include/freetype2 -I/sw/lib/fontconfig2/include -I/sw/include/ 
libpng12 -I/sw/include -idirafter /usr/X11R6/include' 'LDFLAGS=- 
dead_strip -bind_at_load -multiply_defined suppress -L/usr/X11R6/lib - 
L/usr/local/lib -L/sw/lib/ncurses -L/sw/lib''

Important settings:
  value of $LC_ALL: nil
  value of $LC_COLLATE: nil
  value of $LC_CTYPE: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $LC_MESSAGES: nil
  value of $LC_MONETARY: nil
  value of $LC_NUMERIC: nil
  value of $LC_TIME: nil
  value of $LANG: de_DE.UTF-8
  value of $XMODIFIERS: nil
  locale-coding-system: utf-8-unix
  default-enable-multibyte-characters: t

Major mode: Dired by date

Minor modes in effect:
  TeX-PDF-mode: t
  shell-dirtrack-mode: t
  show-paren-mode: t
  display-time-mode: t
  desktop-save-mode: t
  tooltip-mode: t
  mouse-wheel-mode: t
  menu-bar-mode: t
  file-name-shadow-mode: t
  global-font-lock-mode: t
  font-lock-mode: t
  blink-cursor-mode: t
  global-auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-composition-mode: t
  auto-compression-mode: t
  column-number-mode: t
  line-number-mode: t
  transient-mark-mode: t


--
Greetings

  Pete

Who the fsck is "General Failure," and why is he reading my disk?