bug#81606: Mojibake with UTF-8 file names

Werner LEMBERG <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.emacs.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
>> Thanks.  I also suggest that the AUCTeX documentation mentions the
>> importance of the 'coding:' cookie for master file names with
>> non-ASCII characters.
> 
> I plan to install something like this.  Does it make sense to you?
> 
> +If you're using non-ASCII characters in the name of the master file and
> +Emacs doesn't detect the master file correctly, you should give Emacs a
> +hint about the correct coding of the current file like this:
> +
> +@example
> +%%% Local Variables:
> +%%% coding: utf-8
> +%%% TeX-master: "ä-master"
> +%%% End:
> +@end example
> +

I would be more strict.  What about the following.

  Non-ASCII characters in the name of of the master file must use the
  same encoding as the current input file itself.  To make this
  actually work, set the @code{coding} local variable accordingly; in
  most cases, you want to use UTF-8 encoding.  Example:

  ...


     Werner
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