Change Emacs Default Coding System

Question

My problem stems from Emacs inserting the coding system headers into source files containing non-ascii characters:

# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

My c

Answer 1

First, I agree with the the original answer, but I would also add that if I had your issue I would use something like the following:

(defun java-setup ()
  (setq tab-stop-list
        '(4 8 12 16 20 24 28 32 36 40 44 48 52 56 60 64 68 72 76 80 84 88 92)
        indent-tabs-mode nil
        tab-width 4
    fill-column 96
    buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8-unix
    c-comment-start-regexp "\\(@\\|/\\(/\\|[*][*]?\\)\\)"))

(add-hook 'java-mode-hook 'java-setup)