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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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Simon Ledergerber <sledergerber <at> gmx.net>

Date: Thu, 21 May 2015 18:53:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 26.1

Fixed in version 26.2

Done: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #57 received at 20623-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca
Cc: sledergerber <at> gmx.net, a.s <at> realize.ch, 20623-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
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: Fri, 15 Dec 2017 11:08:50 +0200

> Date: Sun, 10 Dec 2017 21:17:00 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
> Cc: a.s <at> realize.ch, 20623 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, sledergerber <at> gmx.net
> 
> I would like to propose the following alternative patch, which accepts
> utf-8-with-signature and utf-8-hfs as variants of utf-8 for the
> purposes of encoding of XML files.  Comments?  Do we want a similar
> treatment for UTF-16?  (That doesn't seem to be required by the bug
> report, and UTF-16 in XML files is non-standard anyway.  But what
> about HTML?)

No further comments, so I've pushed the change and I'm marking this
bug done.
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