Re: Coding system detection: Emacs 23 vs. 22

[Stefan Monnier]

> when opening the attached file (see attachment `ae.el.gz'), thee
> coding system detection of Emacs 23 and 22 give different results:

> - Emacs 22 (both, Emacs 21.1 and the current Emacs 22 branch) says
>   emacs-mule-unix.  (The file was created with Emacs 22)

> - Emacs 23, says iso-latin-1-unix

> The real problem with this is that my Gnus score files of Emacs 22 no
> longer work with Emacs 23 if the score entry (subject, author, ...)
> contains a non-ascii character.


> Expected behavior:

> Emacs 23 should detect that the attached file is not iso-latin-1 (even
> `file' detects this) but emacs-mule.

I suspect this is related to bug #16
http://emacsbugs.donarmstrong.com/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=16

Handa?


        Stefan