Re: [Warning and iso 8859-1 default?] (was: problem with old hebrew latex files in iso 8859-8 coding)

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Uwe Brauer <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2019 16:39:19 +0300
> 
>     1. I open a new file.
> 
>     2. I write שלום איל
> 
>     3. I save it as iso8859-8 (no warning pops up)
> 
>     4. I reopen the file and its interpreted as iso8859-1
> 
> Firstly, why does Emacs expect this to be iso8859-1? Is there any variable
> I could change?

It's because of your locale, most probably.

> Secondly, shouldn't Emacs send a warning: «you are saving this file as
> single-byte, be aware that when emacs reopen the file it might not
> guess the coding» or something like this???

That'd be annoying, as these encodings are still used quite widely.