Re: How to make emacs auto-recognize utf-8 encoded files upon visiting

[Eli Zaretskii]

On Tue, 24 Sep 2002, Charles Muller wrote:

> All I know is that before I began to use this package, when doing mail in
> Emacs (21.2), there was never any automatic recognition of any kinds of
> non-Western encoding. Now it recognizes Japanese, Korean, Chinese, and
> whatever, whether these be in the local encoding (JIS, Big5, etc.) or
> Unicode, without me having to do "prefer-coding-system" or anything like
> that.

FWIW, my stock Emacs 21.2 recognizes non-Western encodings right out of 
the box.

I'm not saying that you were dreaming, just that those problems are not 
trivial to reproduce, so a full-blown bug report is in order.