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; * etc/NEWS: Mention the 'utf-8-auto' bugfix (bug#60750).

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Eli Zaretskii 2023-02-02 12:35:16 +02:00
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@ -563,6 +563,20 @@ The variable 'font-lock-support-mode' is occasionally useful for
debugging purposes. It is now a regular variable (instead of a user
option) and can be set to nil to disable Just-in-time Lock mode.
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** The 'utf-8-auto' coding-system now produces BOM on encoding.
This is actually a bugfix, since this is how 'utf-8-auto' was
documented from day one; it just didn't behave according to
documentation. It turns out some Lisp programs were using this
coding-system on the wrong assumption that the "auto" part means some
automagic handling of the end-of-line (EOL) format conversion; those
program will now start to fail, because BOM signature in UTF-8 encoded
text is rarely expected. That is the reason we mention this bugfix
here.
In general, this coding-system should probably never be used for
encoding, only for decoding.
* Changes in Emacs 29.1