Re: Unintuitive behaviour with find-file and empty files.

"Stephen J. Turnbull" <[email protected]> Thu, 08 Jul 2004 21:32:49 +0900

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>>>>> "Aidan" =3D=3D Aidan Kehoe <[email protected]> writes:

    Aidan> At point [3], buffer-file-coding-system is hz-gb-2312, not
    Aidan> iso-8859-2, which I, at least, would na=EFvely expect. IMHO,
    Aidan> this isn't very intuitive behaviour; is there a good reason
    Aidan> for it?

No, although it's not 100% obvious to me that iso-8859-2 is the
"right" answer there.

My guess is just that it's boundary behavior that pretty rarely comes
up.  Mule is heavily biased toward guessing right, and not really very
friendly to users who know (or think they know) what they're doing.

I'll think about fixing it at some point.

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