Re: Using utf-8-auto as a process coding system

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:54:42 +0300
> From: Bozhidar Batsov <address@hidden>
> Cc: emacs-devel <address@hidden>
> 
> On July 21, 2014 at 4:25:04 PM, Andreas Schwab (address@hidden) wrote:
> Bozhidar Batsov <address@hidden> writes: 
> 
> > I was wondering if someone can explain the rationale behind the utf-8-auto 
> > coding system that’s available in Emacs. 
> 
> UTF-8 (auto-detect signature (BOM)) 
> So, it’s a good idea to use it for files, but it’s probably not a good idea 
> to use it as process encoding, because there likely won’t be a BOM to check?

Actually, I don't see why it would be a good idea to use it anywhere.

Why did you get a recommendation for this encoding?  (Sorry, I didn't
find it in the URL you mentioned earlier.)  It's sound like a strange
recommendation to me.