# HG changeset patch
# User Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
# Date 1015070090 0
# Node ID a4789f07d85d206107794e3b09fe3bf53f2862fc
# Parent  e21744d590567e2a2b6d08336867995cfe7d3035
(syms_of_buffer) <buffer-file-coding-system>: Doc fix.

diff -r e21744d59056 -r a4789f07d85d src/buffer.c
--- a/src/buffer.c	Sat Mar 02 11:14:03 2002 +0000
+++ b/src/buffer.c	Sat Mar 02 11:54:50 2002 +0000
@@ -5279,6 +5279,9 @@
 unless some coding system is specified in `file-coding-system-alist'
 for the buffer file.
 
+If the text to be saved cannot be encoded as specified by this variable,
+an alternative encoding is selected by `select-safe-coding-system', which see.
+
 The variable `coding-system-for-write', if non-nil, overrides this variable.
 
 This variable is never applied to a way of decoding a file while reading it.  */);