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23.1.92; Archives with wrong coding system

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Message #17 received at 5553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org (full text, mbox):

From: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
To: Juri Linkov <juri <at> jurta.org>
Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 5553 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#5553: 23.1.92; Archives with wrong coding system
Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 15:14:42 -0500

> So the question is whether we should complement entries in
> `magic-fallback-mode-alist' with the corresponding entries in
> `auto-coding-regexp-alist' with the same regexps (like we complement
> entries in `auto-mode-alist' with entries in `auto-coding-alist')?

> Or every function in `auto-coding-functions' that determines a coding system
> should somehow take care of exceptions in `magic-fallback-mode-alist'?

I think that auto-coding-alist should allow mapping not only file-names
but also major modes to coding-systems.  This should hopefully take care
of those issues by mapping image-mode and archive-mode to no-conversion.


        Stefan

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