bug#44486: 27.1; C-@ chars corrupt elisp buffer

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Fri, 06 Nov 2020 22:07:10 +0200
> From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> Cc: thievol@posteo.net, schwab@linux-m68k.org, 44486@debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> We don't specify that prefer-utf-8, which is used by default for *.el
> files, should heed this variable.  Since prefer-utf-8 is a variant of
> 'undecided', i.e. it performs detection of encoding, I think this is a
> bug, because 'undecided' does pay attention to
> inhibit-null-byte-detection.
> 
> So I propose the change below (for master).  Any objections?

No objections, so I have now installed this on the master branch, and
I'm closing this bug report.