Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1

[Sivaram Neelakantan]

On Sat, Jun 09 2018,Eli Zaretskii wrote:


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> Well, that doesn't really answer my question, sop I'd try to answer
> what I think you may be asking.
>
>  . Visiting UTF-8 encoded files should "just work".


Thanks. That's reassuring.

>  . If you want to _create_ UTF-8 encoded files, you will need to
>    request that explicitly using "C-x RET c" before saving a file.
>  . Visiting UTF-16 encoded files may require "C-x RET c" before
>    "C-x C-f".  (UTF-16 is what is called "Unicode" on Windows, which
>    was one reason why I asked my question.)

Right, this was what I wanted to know.  What to fiddle with to
create/edit files in Windows.  Thanks, this helps.


>  . File names are supported even if they include characters not
>    supported by the current system codepage.

How will they render in the buffer then?

>  . Receiving sub-process output encoded in UTF-8 should work with
>    programs known to output UTF-8, such as Git; in other cases you may
>    need to use "C-x RET c" or customize your process-coding-system-alist.
>  . Beware of passing to programs command-line arguments encoded in
>    UTF-8: that doesn't work.
>
> HTH
>


sivaram
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