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bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8
From: |
Eli Zaretskii |
Subject: |
bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8 |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Nov 2016 22:16:08 +0200 |
> From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:59:58 -0500
> Cc: 24953@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Yes. (And it should be the default on GNU/Linux, at least on most of
> > its flavors.)
>
> I built and installed 25.1, and it looks like the default is also
> English. (At least according to `current-language-environment'.) Is
> that a bug then?
It's not a bug. The important thing is the various coding-systems: if
your locale is something like en_US.UTF-8, then the default encodings
should all be utf-8, which is what you want.
> >> (I originally thought that all it gets me is a default encoding for
> >> non-ascii files...)
> >
> > You could customize just that, then.
>
> Using `prefer-coding-system'? Or something else?
Using setq-default.
> > And I don't really understand why that is needed, either, unless you
> > want the files you create to be automatically in UTF-8.
>
> Doesn't that make sense if I almost always edit source code for
> languages that use utf-8 to read sources?
Languages that use utf-8 should already encode in utf-8 by default.
Which ones don't?
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Barzilay, 2016/11/15
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/16
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Barzilay, 2016/11/16
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/16
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Barzilay, 2016/11/16
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8,
Eli Zaretskii <=
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Barzilay, 2016/11/20
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/20
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Barzilay, 2016/11/21
- bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8, Eli Zaretskii, 2016/11/21