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diff --git a/lisp/mail/rmail.el b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
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--- a/lisp/mail/rmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/rmail.el
@@ -945,17 +945,17 @@ Note: it means the file has no messages in it.\n\^_")))
(unless (and coding-system
(coding-system-p coding-system))
(setq coding-system
- ;; Emacs 21.1 and later writes RMAIL files in emacs-mule, but
- ;; earlier versions did that with the current buffer's encoding.
- ;; So we want to favor detection of emacs-mule (whose normal
- ;; priority is quite low), but still allow detection of other
- ;; encodings if emacs-mule won't fit. The call to
- ;; detect-coding-with-priority below achieves that.
- (car (detect-coding-with-priority
- from to
- '((coding-category-emacs-mule . emacs-mule))))))
- (unless (memq coding-system
- '(undecided undecided-unix))
+ ;; If rmail-file-coding-system is nil, Emacs 21 writes
+ ;; RMAIL files in emacs-mule, Emacs 22 in utf-8, but
+ ;; earlier versions did that with the current buffer's
+ ;; encoding. So we want to favor detection of emacs-mule
+ ;; (whose normal priority is quite low) and utf-8, but
+ ;; still allow detection of other encodings if they won't
+ ;; fit. The call to with-coding-priority below achieves
+ ;; that.
+ (with-coding-priority '(emacs-mule utf-8)
+ (detect-coding-region from to 'highest))))
+ (unless (eq (coding-system-type coding-system) 'undecided)
(set-buffer-modified-p t) ; avoid locking when decoding
(let ((buffer-undo-list t))
(decode-coding-region from to coding-system))