Subject: Re: bug#25365: 25.1; Coding system for bookmarks and desktop

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 17:49:57 +0200

> From: Dmitri Paduchikh <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked]
> Date: Tue, 10 Jan 2017 01:34:18 +0500
> 
> EZ> E.g., set a bookmark in TUTORIAL.ru, and then try saving the
> EZ> bookmark file using the Latin-1 encoding. I just tried something
> EZ> like that, and the effect was exactly as I expected: Emacs requested
> EZ> me to provide another encoding.
> 
> Try this in different order. Assuming your patch applied, save bookmarks
> using latin-1. Suppose this operation passes successfully and bookmarks
> have been saved using latin-1. Then bookmark TUTORIAL.ru and save again
> not specifying encoding.

Ah, OK.  Then the attached additional change should handle that use
case.

Thanks.

commit 560a384038845e37228226313eccfc8d70132553
Author:     Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
AuthorDate: Tue Jan 10 17:47:10 2017 +0200

    Don't use unsafe encoding for the bookmark file
    
    * lisp/bookmark.el (bookmark-write-file): Handle the case when the
    explicitly specified encoding of the bookmark file cannot encode the
    additional bookmarks just added.  (Bug#25365)

diff --git a/lisp/bookmark.el b/lisp/bookmark.el
index e18362b..02dd8a9 100644
--- a/lisp/bookmark.el
+++ b/lisp/bookmark.el
@@ -1432,13 +1432,20 @@ bookmark-write-file
           ;; arbitrary Lisp objects being stored in bookmark records,
           ;; and some users create objects containing circularities.
           (print-circle t))
-      (bookmark-insert-file-format-version-stamp coding-system-for-write)
       (insert "(")
       ;; Rather than a single call to `pp' we make one per bookmark.
       ;; Apparently `pp' has a poor algorithmic complexity, so this
       ;; scales a lot better.  bug#4485.
       (dolist (i bookmark-alist) (pp i (current-buffer)))
       (insert ")")
+      ;; Make sure the specified encoding can safely encode the
+      ;; bookmarks.  If it cannot, suggest utf-8-emacs as default.
+      (with-coding-priority '(utf-8-emacs)
+        (setq coding-system-for-write
+              (select-safe-coding-system (point-min) (point-max)
+                                         (list t coding-system-for-write))))
+      (goto-char (point-min))
+      (bookmark-insert-file-format-version-stamp coding-system-for-write)
       (let ((version-control
              (cond
               ((null bookmark-version-control) nil)