Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Filipp Gunbin]

On 05/07/2023 08:49 -0400, Stefan Monnier wrote:

>>    + -- 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).

My experience differs: for example, cp1251 is often used for
auto-generated csv files (like transaction list from an online bank) in
Russian environments.