Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Ulrich Mueller]

>>>>> On Thu, 06 Jul 2023, Eli Zaretskii wrote:

>> All I'm asking for is a unique indicator for UTF-8. Wouldn't this be
>> justified for the most common encoding (or maybe it's second after
>> ASCII)?

> Sorry, I'm not interested in such radical changes.  UTF-8 is an
> important encoding, but that doesn't justify what you propose.  In the
> absolute majority of cases, "U" already means UTF-8 and nothing else,
> so the issue is marginal at best, and making such significant
> incompatible changes in user-facing displays is unjustified from my
> POV.

Sorry, but in what world does this qualify as a "radical change"?

I propose changing UTF-16 and UTF-7 from uppercase "U" to lowercase "u",
and koi8 to some other character like "K".