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bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 th
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Glenn Morris |
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bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days? |
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Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:32 -0500 |
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Gnus (www.gnus.org), GNU Emacs (www.gnu.org/software/emacs/) |
Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Split from http://debbugs.gnu.org/15260
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> mule-cmds.el calls reset-language-environment, and language/english.el
> calls set-language-info-alist; both have the effect of resetting
> default-file-name-coding-system to latin-1 (!? an interesting
> "default" for a Unicode-era Emacs, perhaps Handa-san could comment why
> we still do that).
I know nothing about this, but eg glib defaults to utf-8, which seems
like a better default to me these days:
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#file-name-encodings
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