Subject: Re: bug#1183: 23.0.60; ediff-buffers is broken

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 19 Oct 2008 09:17:58 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2008 22:17:06 -0400
> 
> >> Back then Stefan suggested emacs-mule instead of no-conversion, but for some
> >> reason this was not done--don't remember why.
> 
> > No special reason.
> 
> Actually, after looking at it a little bit, there are some reasons: the
> encoding is currently set in ediff-make-temp-file which is used in many
> different circumstances, some of which should use emacs-internal, but
> maybe not all.

We have ediff-job-name to distinguish between the different
use-cases.  Ediff already does that in several places, e.g., to pass
the "--binary" option to Diff.