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bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä
From: |
Stefan Kangas |
Subject: |
bug#4157: 23.1.50; faulty character characterisation for ä |
Date: |
Sun, 17 Nov 2019 21:58:18 +0100 |
User-agent: |
Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/27.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
tags 4157 + notabug
close 4157
thanks
Stefan Kangas <stefan@marxist.se> writes:
> Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca> writes:
>
>> > Perhaps you're just not supposed to use anything but UTF-8 on macOS?
>>
>> Exactly.
>>
>> I'd argue this applies to GNU/Linux as well nowadays, but macsox has
>> been utf-8 only since the very beginning, AFAIK, and it (for example)
>> enforces that file names are in utf-8, so using anything else than utf-8
>> in macosx is asking for trouble.
>
> FWIW, I would've nothing against closing this as wontfix, and write
> this up as a case of "don't do that then".
No further comments here within 5 weeks. From the above, the decision
here seems to be that we only support UTF-8 locales on macOS. This is
the default, and there should be no reason to change it.
I'm therefore closing this as notabug.
Best regards,
Stefan Kangas