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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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: 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: Mon, 04 Dec 2017 16:08:14 -0500

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

I'd expect the same problem would affect all other uses.

> 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.


        Stefan

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