(sendmail-coding-system): Doc-string modified.

(default-sendmail-coding-system): New variable.
(sendmail-send-it): Encode the message by a coding system
select-message-coding-system returns.

diff --git a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
index 31b0a06..c5ebe29 100644 (file)
--- a/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
+++ b/lisp/mail/sendmail.el
@@ -712,7 +712,22 @@ the user from the mailer."
 
 ;;;###autoload
 (defvar sendmail-coding-system nil
-  "Coding system to encode the outgoing mail.")
+  "*Coding system for encoding the outgoing mail.
+This has higher priority than `defualt-buffer-file-coding-system'
+and `default-sendmail-coding-system',
+but lower priority than the local value of `buffer-file-coding-system'.
+See also the function `select-sendmail-coding-system'.")
+
+;;;###autoload
+(defvar default-sendmail-coding-system 'iso-latin-1
+  "Default coding system for encodihng the outgoing mail.
+This variable is used only when `sendmail-coding-system' is nil.
+
+This variable is set/changed by the command set-language-environment.
+User should not set this variable manually,
+instead use sendmail-coding-system to get a constant encoding
+of outgoing mails regardless of the current language environment.
+See also the function `select-sendmail-coding-system'.")
 
 (defun sendmail-send-it ()
   (require 'mail-utils)
@@ -724,17 +739,7 @@ the user from the mailer."
        resend-to-addresses
        delimline
        fcc-was-found
-       (mailbuf (current-buffer))
-       (sendmail-coding-system
-        (if (local-variable-p 'buffer-file-coding-system)
-            buffer-file-coding-system
-          (or sendmail-coding-system
-              default-buffer-file-coding-system
-              'iso-latin-1))))
-    (if (fboundp select-safe-coding-system-function)
-       (setq sendmail-coding-system
-             (funcall select-safe-coding-system-function
-                      (point-min) (point-max) sendmail-coding-system)))
+       (mailbuf (current-buffer)))
     (unwind-protect
        (save-excursion
          (set-buffer tembuf)
@@ -877,7 +882,7 @@ the user from the mailer."
 \\|^resent-cc:\\|^resent-bcc:"
                                   delimline t))
              (let ((default-directory "/")
-                   (coding-system-for-write sendmail-coding-system))
+                   (coding-system-for-write (select-message-coding-system)))
                (apply 'call-process-region
                       (append (list (point-min) (point-max)
                                     (if (boundp 'sendmail-program)