Subject: Re: bug#21780: 25.0.50; Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes

From: Andy Moreton <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 23:06:22 +0000

On Fri 30 Oct 2015, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 2015 22:50:57 +0200
>> From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
>> Cc: [email-masked]
>> 
>> If you want to have Unix EOLs by default, the correct customization is
>> this:
>> 
>>   (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system
>>                 (coding-system-change-eol-conversion
>>                  buffer-file-coding-system 'unix))
>
> This variant is better:
>
>   (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system
>                 (coding-system-change-eol-conversion
>                  default-buffer-file-coding-system 'unix))

Why ? Help for `default-buffer-file-coding-system' says:

  This variable is obsolete since 23.2;
  use ‘buffer-file-coding-system’ instead.

I think Drew's version was fine.

    AndyM