Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Po Lu]

Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org> writes:

> No.  The purpose is to indicate the buffer's file coding system.  You
> can put non-latin-1 characters in a buffer with a latin-1 file coding
> system just fine.

It should have been clear that was what I meant...

> The file coding system is only relevant when the buffer contents is
> saved.

since there is little point in editing a buffer visiting a file without
the intention to save it.