Subject: 24.3.91; utf-8 coding system for etc/NEWS
From: "Roland Winkler" <[email-masked]>
To: [email-masked]
Date: Fri, 23 May 2014 22:24:06 -0500
List-Id: <debbugs-submit.debbugs.gnu.org>

etc/NEWS contains the line

** The syntax of ?» and ?« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

Yet for me, emacs -Q uses the wrong coding system, so that I get

** The syntax of ?Â» and ?Â« is now punctuation instead of matched parens.

It seems that etc/NEWS should use a file-local variable to specify
its coding system.

In GNU Emacs 24.3.91.1 (x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu, GTK+ Version 3.4.2)
 of 2014-05-12 on regnitz
Windowing system distributor `The X.Org Foundation', version 11.0.11103000
System Description:	Ubuntu 12.04.4 LTS

Important settings:
  value of $LC_COLLATE: C
  value of $LANG: en_US.ISO-8859-15
  locale-coding-system: iso-latin-9-unix

Major mode: Outline