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 #94 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 08:45:15 -0400

>> > 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.
> Not sure what you meant by "all other uses".  Could you please
> elaborate?

Your commit ec6f588940e51013435408a456c10d33ddf98fb2 answers that
question: at least sgml-html-meta-auto-coding-function is one of those
"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.

I still don't know where the EOL part is handled.


        Stefan

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