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

[Kenichi Handa]

In article <address@hidden>, "Eli Zaretskii" <address@hidden> writes:
>>  From: "Stefan Monnier" <monnier+gnu/address@hidden>
>>  Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 08:21:53 -0500
>>  > 
>>  > 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.

> I don't object, but the current practice is to use iso-2022-7bit or
> emacs-mule, I think.  So unless this is changed, authors.el should be
> encoded as the rest of similar files.

I also don't have a strong opinion, but, it seems that using
utf-8 is better because it may reveal a problem of using it
if any.  :-)

I feel that such staffs as unify-8859-on-encoding-mode must
be tested more.

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Ken'ichi HANDA
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