From c08398de397d083032253ca03047fdd38e4acff4 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Dave Love Date: Thu, 8 Jun 2000 16:04:30 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Preferred coding system change. --- etc/NEWS | 12 ++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 12 insertions(+) diff --git a/etc/NEWS b/etc/NEWS index 93160c360c7..4f51168f09c 100644 --- a/etc/NEWS +++ b/etc/NEWS @@ -16,6 +16,14 @@ images and toolkit scrollbars. Use the --help option to list them. * Changes in Emacs 21.1 +** The most preferred coding-system is now used to save a buffer if +buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and it is safe for the buffer +contents. (The most preferred is set by set-language-environment or +by M-x prefer-coding-system.) Thus if you visit an ASCII file and +insert a non-ASCII character from your current language environment, +the file will be saved silently with the appropriate coding. +Previously you would be prompted for a safe coding system. + ** Variable `default-korean-keyboard' is initialized properly from the environment variable `HANGUL_KEYBOARD_TYPE'. @@ -1211,6 +1219,10 @@ functionality with aliases for the mldrag functions. * Lisp changes made after edition 2.6 of the Emacs Lisp Manual, (Display-related features are described in a page of their own below.) +** select-safe-coding-system now also checks the most preferred +coding-system if buffer-file-coding-system is `undecided' and +DEFAULT-CODING-SYSTEM is not specified, + ** The function `subr-arity' provides information on the argument list of a primitive. -- 2.39.5