Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Stefan Monnier]

>    + -- utf-8*  (all variants)
>    (everything else unchanged)
>
> or:
>
>    U -- utf-8*  (all variants)
>    u -- utf-16* (all variants)
>    u -- utf-7
>    K -- koi8-u

They both sound good to me.

BTW, things like 8bit coding systems like koi8 are (and should be)
becoming sufficiently rare nowadays in my experience that we could
consider using non-single-letter thingies for them (I'd even welcome
extra highlighting with some kind of warning color).


        Stefan