GNU bug report logs - #21780
25.0.50; Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Drew Adams <drew.adams <at> oracle.com>

Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2015 01:52:02 UTC

Severity: normal

Found in version 25.0.50

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

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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Message #46 received at submit <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Andy Moreton <andrewjmoreton <at> gmail.com>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#21780: 25.0.50;
 Saving *Help* results in bad encoding because of curly quotes
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 <eliz <at> gnu.org>
>> Cc: 21780 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
>> 
>> 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  This variable is obsolete since 23.2;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
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