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

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 07 Aug 2018 15:14:58 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> The HTML (not XML) case specified in the original report
>> ("Now the steps for HTML" in https://debbugs.gnu.org/20623#5) and in
>> https://bugs.debian.org/883434 seems unfixed.
>
> Should it be?

I think this a bug that should be fixed, yes (if that is the question).