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.

> Like some others have said too: the problem isn't that Emacs
> would have any "bugs" I could report, it's just that I do
> _not_ want it to guess any encodings.  I use iso-8859-1, and
> that's good enough for me.

Suit yourself.  As the multibyte support improves and beomces more
sophisticated, it's becoming increasingly difficult to make sure that both
the multibyte and the unibyte modes work correctly, and the multibyte mode
is the most commonly used, so unless you remove the above line from your
Emacs, you're likely to bump into an increasing number of annoyances.

Just like you, the only languages I know are all covered by latin-1, and
believe me, we're not the only two.  Most of those people use the default
multibyte mode without any problem.  Try it.


        Stefan