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Re: utf-8-unix vs utf-8-emacs-unix


From: Po Lu
Subject: Re: utf-8-unix vs utf-8-emacs-unix
Date: Thu, 30 Dec 2021 10:43:15 +0800
User-agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/28.0.60 (gnu/linux)

"Feng Shu" <tumashu@163.com> writes:

> Hello:
>
> Before I use:
>
>  ;; Local Variables:
>  ;; coding: utf-8-unix
>  ;; End:
>
> Can I change it to the below?
>
>  ;; Local Variables:
>  ;; coding: utf-8-emacs-unix
>  ;; End:

utf-8-emacs is the coding system used by Emacs to internally represent
multibyte values, which includes non-Unicode characters.

I don't think it's ever a good idea to save files for human consumption
in that encoding, but both coding systems should encode ordinary Chinese
text the same way.


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