vc-version-other-window, does not "respect" UTF-8

[Uwe Brauer]

>>>>> "Aidan" == Aidan Kehoe <kehoea at parhasard.net> writes:

   >  Ar an triú lá de mí na Nollaig, scríobh Uwe Brauer: 

   >> 
   >> Can anybody reproduce this? What shall I do?

   > This sounds like a bug specific to the VC package, not a bug specific to
   > XEmacs. Ah, line 2610 vc.el; it doesn’t preserve the coding system used in
   > the original buffer. Is the bug addressed if you add a

   > (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8)

Now I remember the problem with this is that it converts my abbrev
table using UTF-8 and then I can't use it anymore with xemacs no mule!