"Wedler, Christoph" <christoph.wedler(a)sap.com&gt; writes: I am one who is inconvenienced by this problem. In file-coding.c, if any encoding formats doesn't detected, files are treated with default-buffer-file-coding-system. If this variable has a specific EOL type, it override file's own one. This is a workaround patch to this problem by introducing C version of coding-system-base . Does anyone have a idea for the real fix? --- file-coding.c.orig Tue Dec 25 20:58:50 2001 +++ file-coding.c Tue Dec 25 20:24:54 2001 ＠＠ -1729,6 +1729,26 ＠＠ } static Lisp_Object +coding_system_base (Lisp_Object coding_system) +{ + if (XCODING_SYSTEM_EOL_TYPE (coding_system) == EOL_AUTODETECT) + return coding_system; + { + Lisp_Object name; + Bytecount offset; + Bufbyte *new_name; + + name = Fsymbol_name (XCODING_SYSTEM_NAME (coding_system)); + offset = fast_lisp_string_match + (build_string ("-unix$\\|-dos$\\|-mac$"), name); + new_name = alloca (offset + 1); + memcpy (new_name, XSTRING_DATA (name), offset); + new_name[offset] = '\0'; + return Ffind_coding_system (intern (new_name)); + } +} + +static Lisp_Object coding_system_from_mask (int mask) { if (mask == ~0) ＠＠ -1747,6 +1767,8 ＠＠ "Invalid `default-buffer-file-coding-system', set to nil"); XBUFFER (Vbuffer_defaults)->buffer_file_coding_system = Qnil; } + else + retval = coding_system_base (retval); } if (NILP (retval)) retval = Fget_coding_system (Qraw_text);