bug#33796: 27.0.50; Use utf-8 is all our Elisp files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> Cc: 33796@debbugs.gnu.org, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2018 09:54:40 -0800
> 
>  > I'm not really sure who to ask about this.
> 
> You can ask me (:-). Although I can't read east-Asian languages I do 
> have significant experience with CJK text as my previous (15-year) job 
> was in a company whose customers were almost all CJK and where CJK 
> internationalization was essential and where I regularly dealt with 
> weird encodings and displays. And this one is an easy call: for 
> maintaining these particular files, UTF-8 is an improvement and this 
> patch should go in.

Thanks.

I could predict your answers in advance.  I need to hear a second
opinion, from someone who does read these languages, because the issue
at hand is how the charset information affects the font(s) selected
for displaying the text, and how important are the differences in
those fonts to CJK users.

> etc/HELLO is pretty much a disaster for me now, as I can’t use any tool 
> other than Emacs to look at it

??? It's a UTF-8 file with markup.  Do you have the same problems with
HTML and XML files?

(I'm not saying that we should use the same technique for Lisp files,
of course.)