Re: non-ASCII characters in Automake source files

Bruno Haible <bruno@xxxxxxxxx> writes:

> Paul Eggert writes:
> > appending "(prefer-coding-system 'utf8)" to my ~/.emacs seemed to
> > be pretty close to what I was looking for.
> 
> Good. I simply didn't know about it.

Oops, I see now that I mistyped my message.  Just for the record, it's
spelled "utf-8" not "utf8".  That is, you append:

(prefer-coding-system 'utf-8)

to your ~/.emacs file.  It works for me so far, with GNU Emacs 21.3.
It probably doesn't work as well for older Emacs versions, since 21.3
has several UTF-8-related patches.