Re: 21.5 is/was prepending UTF-8 signatures to ASCII and binary files

|--==> "SJT" == Stephen J Turnbull <stephen(a)xemacs.org&gt; writes: SY> Could I hang something off 'find-file-hooks' to change the SY> coding system if it's "MSW UTF8"? SJT> Not the right idea. Er ... try this: SJT> (set-coding-priority-list SJT> '(iso-8-1 iso-7 utf-16-little-endian-bom utf-16-bom utf-8-bom no-conversion)) Yes, that worked for me. Thanks Steve! SY> I usually run a Mule-enabled XEmacs and if I byte-compile SY> these files with a Mule-XEmacs I can't load them with a SY> non-Mule one. I get a "can't open load file: mule" error. SJT> Er, check those files for the coding system cookie `escape-quoted'. SJT> They are explicitly set to be encoded in raw-text-unix (binary) or SJT> escape-quoted. If they are getting the UTF-8 signature that is very SJT> bad indeed; it means the coding systems are leaking into each other. Before rearranging the coding-priority-list these files had: (require 'mule) ;;;###coding system: escape-quoted And after rearranging coding-priority-list they had neither of those two lines. -- |---<Steve Youngs>---------------<GnuPG KeyID: 10D5C9C5>---| | XEmacs - It's not just an editor. | | It's a way of life. | |------------------------------------&lt;youngs(a)xemacs.org&gt;---|