(savehist-coding-system): Default to a variant coding system

with explicit unix end-of-line conversion, which is safer.

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lisp/ChangeLog b/lisp/ChangeLog
index cb6f768d82c..3400963c846 100644
--- a/lisp/ChangeLog
+++ b/lisp/ChangeLog
@@ -1,3 +1,8 @@
+2008-01-04  Juanma Barranquero  <lekktu@gmail.com>
+
+        * savehist.el (savehist-coding-system): Default to a variant coding
+        system with explicit unix end-of-line conversion, which is safer.
+
 2008-01-03  Stefan Monnier  <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
 
         * ibuf-ext.el (mode-name sorter, ibuffer-mark-by-mode-regexp):
@@ -844,8 +849,8 @@
         (verilog-emacs-features, verilog-auto-ascii-enum)
         (verilog-insert-indices): Escape braces in doc strings.
 
-2007-12-08  Michael McNamara <mac@verilog.com>
-            Wilson Snyder <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>
+2007-12-08  Michael McNamara  <mac@verilog.com>
+            Wilson Snyder  <wsnyder@wsnyder.org>
 
         * progmodes/verilog-mode.el: New file.
 
diff --git a/lisp/savehist.el b/lisp/savehist.el
index 705be69088d..4a86d6f0bde 100644
--- a/lisp/savehist.el
+++ b/lisp/savehist.el
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 ;;; savehist.el --- Save minibuffer history.
 
-;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+;; Copyright (C) 1997, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008  Free Software Foundation, Inc.
 
 ;; Author: Hrvoje Niksic <hniksic@xemacs.org>
 ;; Keywords: minibuffer
@@ -152,7 +152,7 @@ save."
 (defvar savehist-coding-system (if (and (featurep 'xemacs)
                                         (<= emacs-major-version 21)
                                         (< emacs-minor-version 5))
-                                   'iso-2022-8 'utf-8)
+                                   'iso-2022-8 'utf-8-unix)
   "The coding system savehist uses for saving the minibuffer history.
 Changing this value while Emacs is running is supported, but considered
 unwise, unless you know what you are doing.")