Subject: Re: bug#20623: XML and HTML files with encoding/charset="utf-8" declaration loose BOM; Coding system is reset from utf-8-with-signature to utf-8 on save

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 22:28:20 +0200

> From: Stefan Monnier <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Alain Schneble <[email-masked]>,  Simon Ledergerber <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
> Date: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 12:38:57 -0500
> 
> This said, we should indeed fix this bug.

Agreed.

> Not sure how to Do It Right but least this specific problem should be
> fixable with a patch along the lines of the one below (guaranteed 100%
> untested).

Isn't it better to fix this in sgml-xml-auto-coding-function?  That's
where the root cause is, AFAIU.

And I don't understand the comment about latin-1-mac: I don't think we
have such problems in Emacs.  The -with-signature variety is
different, because it is not about EOL format.

Thanks.