Re: Emacs-diffs Digest, Vol 2, Issue 49

[Stefan Monnier]

> > That sounds like a good idea.  But is it OK to put in Latin-1 characters
> > in the alias?  I see that all other aliases uses ASCII only.
> 
> You can put Latin-1 characters there, but please make sure to save
> authors.el in iso-2022-7bit encoding, and add a suitable coding:
> cookie on its first line.

I'd recommend we use utf-8 for it.  It's a much more widely recognized
standard.  If we end up needing to insert chars that Emacs doesn't know how
to en/decode to/from utf-8 we can switch to iso-2022-7bit, but until
that happens, I think utf-8 is preferable.


        Stefan