Re: console translator set without encoding

[Alfred M. Szmidt]

   If I were to build a GNU system, I would make UTF-8 the default,
   but then I would also make all sure all applications use that out
   of the box (actually, is emacs ready for that?  I am unsure).

For what it is worth, GNU will use UTF-8 by default.  As for Emacs, I
don't think so, there is a branch for UTF-8 support that I think will
be merged into the trunk when 22.1 has been released.