Subject: bug#7169: cannot specify coding via dir-locals

From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 06 Oct 2010 17:00:02 -0400

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> Independently of the potential bug, why is it a good idea to have such
> a setting in the Emacs tree?  There are some files for which this will
> do the wrong thing.

It will?
There are 59 ChangeLog* files in the Emacs tree.
50 have a coding: cookie.
All but one of those (an old Gnus ChangeLog) use utf-8.
I assume people just forget to add it to the other 9.