Re: Displaying characters in user's locale

[Gavin Smith]

On Thu, Feb 6, 2014 at 6:44 PM, Karl Berry <address@hidden> wrote:
> Hi Gavin,
>
>     that is, not output encoding -
>
> Good.
>
>     I would think that we should leave files as they are if we don't
>     know their encoding - that way we don't risk breaking something that
>     works already.
>
> Right.  So what do you mean by "the default file encoding is set to
> UTF-8"?  What default?  If the default input enc is to leave it as is
> (good), and the default output enc is set per the locale (good), what's
> left?
>
Updated patch leaves things as they are if file encoding is unknown.

character-encoding.patch
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