>>>> "Mike" == Mike FABIAN
<mfabian(a)suse.de> writes:
MF> Looks like a bug to me, I believe the coding system cookie
MF> should have priority over file-coding-system-alist. GNU Emacs
MF> does it like that.
Mike> I still think this is a bug and it is still there in XEmacs
Mike> 21.4.12 with sumos from 2003-02-05.
GNU Emacs, as usual, has a million layers of cruft in the way it
handles coding cookies. Recent experience with them in Python 2.3
just confirms my opinion that they are evil.
Ivan Golubev submitted a package which basically lifts the GNU code
directly into XEmacs. I'll see that it gets committed as a package,
probably part of fsf-compat. Anything beyond that is the stable
release manager's call.
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