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

I had this problem today. For me, the problem was that I copied and pasted some TODO text from an email. When I removed that text, [ # -- coding: utf-8 -- ] was no longer inserted by emacs.