GNU bug report logs - #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

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Message #106 received at 20623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> IRO.UMontreal.CA>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, a.s <at> realize.ch, 20623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sledergerber <at> gmx.net
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
Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2018 20:04:05 -0400

>> > > 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.
>> > You might be right, but I don't know where/how this is handled.
>> I still don't know where the EOL part is handled.
> If you tell me what do you mean by "handled" in this context, I might
> be able to help you understand where that happens.

You say that the code I wrote is not needed to make sure an existing
latin-1-mac setting isn't overwritten by a latin-1 guess.  I expect this
is indeed true (otherwise I think we'd have had bug-reports about it),
but I don't know where that is handled.


        Stefan

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