Subject: Re: bug#17714: 24.4.50; File coding system not detected correctly

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 06 Jun 2014 14:44:09 +0300

> Date: Fri, 6 Jun 2014 11:51:57 +0200
> From: Jorgen Schaefer <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> 
> On Fri, 06 Jun 2014 12:22:15 +0300
> Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> wrote:
> 
> The problem was that the file contained ^@ (zero bytes) from a yank
> from some process output.

When Emacs sees a null byte in a file, it automatically falls back to
no-conversion.  You can inhibit that by setting
inhibit-null-byte-detection to non-nil (not that I advise that).

> Sorry for the noise, nothing to see here. :-)

No sweat.