Re: emacs silently ignores buffer file encoding?

[Stefan Monnier]

> (1) Start emacs -Q
> (2) Visit "/tmp/fff"
> (3) Insert the following chars: "θϑΘ"
> (4) Set the buffer file encoding to latin1 with: C-x C-m f latin-1 RET
> (5) Save the buffer: C-x C-s

> For me, "/tmp/fff" is saved sucessfully, with no error or prompt, using
> an encoding of utf-8 -- despite my having explicitly requested latin-1.

> This doesn't seem right...

Indeed, please post it to the bug-tracker: IIRC this has been reported
before, but got lost.


        Stefan