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From: | Paul Eggert |
Subject: | bug#24759: 25.1.50; electric-quote-mode |
Date: | Sat, 22 Oct 2016 20:55:25 -0700 |
User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.3.0 |
Andreas Schwab wrote:
A typical French user will use a utf-8 locale.
Yes, and to some extent this subthread is a tempest in a teapot, since typical French users now either use a UTF-8 locale, or perhaps the C locale, and Emacs works fine in both these cases. That is, when I run this:
LC_ALL=C emacs -Q newfile C-x 8 [ RET C-x C-son Fedora 24, Emacs saves the file using UTF-8 without prompting the user for an encoding - basically, it is bypassing the locale settings for this file, which is a reasonable thing to do.
As I understand it, this subthread is about what Emacs should do in a unibyte locale that isn't the C locale. It's not clear to me why these locales (which are no longer that important) should be treated differently from a unibyte C locale for this sort of situation.
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