Re: Strange charset selection when posting in iso-8859-1

[Stefan Monnier]

>> >   (setq-default enable-multibyte-characters nil)
>> 
>> If you have problems that seem to be fixed by the above, please use
>> M-x report-emacs-bug RET to report them.

> Ever since Emacs 20 I have had the following lines in my .emacs:

> (setq default-enable-multibyte-characters nil)
> (set-language-environment "Latin-1")

> Otherwise I was constantly fighting problems with coding systems.  

Notice the use of the past tense in your above sentence.  Emacs-20
introduced problems with coding-systems, of course, that was unavoidable.
Many years have passed since then: third-party packages have been fixed,
defaults and heuristics have been improved.

Please try it again.

> I was stuck on Emacs 19.34 for years until I discovered that those two
> lines reliably put Emacs V20 and later into unibyte mode.

You could have read the NEWS file (C-h N) which would have told you
the same.


        Stefan