Re: Cyrillic vs UTF-8

[Stefan Monnier]

> > Maybe it is.  In my situation, I'd like utf-8 to be at the top
> > of the preferences w.r.t decoding because it virtually never
> > guesses wrong.
> > OTOH, I'm still using a mostly-latin-1 environment, so I'd
> > still rather avoid utf-8 when I can.  I.e. latin-1 should be at
> > the top of my preferences w.r.t encoding.
> 
> In that case, I think the source of the problem is that the
> command prefer-coding-system doesn't satisfy this request of
> yours:
>    Prefer utf-8 only in automatic detection on reading a
>    file, not for the other situations.
> 
> (defun prefer-coding-system (coding-system)
>   "Add CODING-SYSTEM at the front of the priority list for automatic 
> detection.
> This also sets the following coding systems:
>   o coding system of a newly created buffer
>   o default coding system for subprocess I/O
> This also sets the following values:
>   o default value used as `file-name-coding-system' for converting file names.
>   o default value for the command `set-terminal-coding-system' (not on MSDOS)
>   o default value for the command `set-keyboard-coding-system'
> 
> How about changing it to skip "This also ..." parts if
> called with a prefix argument?
> 
> Then, on writing, if buffer-file-coding-system is not
> locally bound, default-buffer-file-coding-system is tried
> automatically.
> 
> And, for the case that buffer-file-coding-system is locally
> bound differently from default-buffer-file-coding-system,
> but it can'd encode the current buffer, we can change
> select-safe-coding-system to try
> default-buffer-file-coding-system before trying the most
> preferred coding system.
> 
> That way, I think we can satisfy your request completely.

That seems like a cheap way to get what I want indeed.


        Stefan