Re: [help-texinfo] Re: coding systems vs. info files

[Juri Linkov]

>> it is easy to add @documentencoding to the source Texinfo file.
>
> I suppose it'd be nice if emacs looked for that to know the file
> coding.  Another entry for `auto-coding-functions' I guess.

It would be useless to scan every visited file for @documentencoding
after adding a function to find @documentencoding to the default value
of `auto-coding-functions'.

Other similar modes use the variable `file-coding-system-alist',
with an entry like

  ("\\.\\(tex\\|ltx\\|dtx\\|drv\\)\\'" . latexenc-find-file-coding-system)

But this is not ideal either.  Ideally, the coding-guessing function
should be mode-dependent, not filename-dependent.  But it seems currently
it's not possible to do this, and this should wait until the next release.

-- 
Juri Linkov
http://www.jurta.org/emacs/