Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote... |+ | "Kirill M. Katsnelson" <kkm(a)kis.ru&gt; writes: | | > This is what undecided streams are for, but the comment in md5 about | > hit and miss is unfortunately rather correct... | | OK, should I default the coding system to `undecided'? BTW, Jareth, | could you please enter this discussion? I still haven't heard back | from you regarding md5.c. I'd like to know that my changes to it are | correct before attempting to work more on that file. I think this is the best guess, and that's what is already done in md5.c. In md5_coding_system() at line 484: [If string, not buffer, then] /* Attempt to autodetect the coding of the string. This is VERY hit-and-miss. */ enum eol_type eol = EOL_AUTODETECT; coding_system = Fget_coding_system (Qundecided); determine_real_coding_system (XLSTREAM (istream), &coding_system, &eol); Kirill