This is an automatic notification regarding your bug report which was filed against the emacs package: #2354: 23.0.90; Emacs fails to detect utf-8 encoding with language environment Latin-1 It has been closed by Eli Zaretskii . Their explanation is attached below along with your original report. If this explanation is unsatisfactory and you have not received a better one in a separate message then please contact Eli Zaretskii by replying to this email. -- 2354: http://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=2354 Emacs Bug Tracking System Contact help-debbugs@gnu.org with problems