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From: | Stefan Monnier |
Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files |
Date: | Thu, 24 Sep 2015 17:29:38 -0400 |
User-agent: | Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
>> > Since Emacs-24.4 the coding-system Emacs uses for .el files is >> > `prefer-utf-8', i.e. it is explicitly defined to be "utf-8 if it is >> > valid" >> I don't think prefer-utf-8 does what you say here. In any case, I've >> seen the default decoding do incorrect things, and I see no reason to >> risk that in files we control. > Here's an example, btw: > emacs -Q > M-x set-locale-environment RET he_IL.ISO-8859-8 RET > C-x C-f doc/lispref/tips.texi RET Hmm.... I don't think this is using prefer-utf-8. `prefer-utf-8' is used for *.el files via file-coding-system-alist. Stefan
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