bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <jwvfvz7rv51.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier 
<monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > I thought Handa-san was working on that, and he bumped into some
> > problem he needs to fix, before the infrastructure for this is ready.

> I don't think Handa's work is related.  He's trying to improve the
> performance of Emacs when handling utf-8 files, whereas my request is
> for a change in behavior, regardless of performance.

If the performance is not the problem,

(with-coding-priority '(utf-8)
  (load-file "_FILE_NAME_"))

will work.  And, as I've just fixed the problem and
installed the optimization for ASCII and UTF-8 file reading,
the above code should run faster than before.

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Kenichi Handa
handa@gnu.org