Some time ago, Hrvoje Niksic wrote... |+ | For the record: I *do* note that md5 checksums are useful for things | other than the internal buffer representation. But I don't think that | `md5' *function* should have that additional CODING-SYSTEM argument. | Couldn't it pick the coding system from a generally useful variable, | like coding-system-for-write? Am I making any sense? Buffer-local variable buffer-file-coding-system contains coding system for the current buffer. Kirill