changeset 39300:8b178b9f2ee1

Document that rmail-output-to-rmail-file now writes in emacs-mule.
author Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
date Sun, 16 Sep 2001 08:07:55 +0000
parents e3b4adccefbe
children 5be08a776a76
files etc/NEWS
diffstat 1 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-) [+]
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--- a/etc/NEWS	Sun Sep 16 07:56:36 2001 +0000
+++ b/etc/NEWS	Sun Sep 16 08:07:55 2001 +0000
@@ -1326,6 +1326,17 @@
 ** The variable mail-specify-envelope-from controls whether to
 use the -f option when sending mail.
 
+** The Rmail command `o' (`rmail-output-to-rmail-file') now writes the
+current message in the internal `emacs-mule' encoding, rather than in
+the encoding taken from the variable `buffer-file-coding-system'.
+This allows to save messages whose characters cannot be safely encoded
+by the buffer's coding system, and makes sure the message will be
+displayed correctly when you later visit the target Rmail file.
+
+If you want your Rmail files be encoded in a specific coding system
+other than `emacs-mule', you can customize the variable
+`rmail-file-coding-system' to set its value to that coding system.
+
 ** Changes to TeX mode
 
 *** The default mode has been changed from `plain-tex-mode' to