Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Paul Eggert <address@hidden>
> Cc: address@hidden
> Date: Fri, 25 Sep 2015 15:32:11 -0700
> 
> Here's a better idea.  Developers that use a UTF-8 locale are OK 
> already.  Let's suggest to the remaining developers that they put 
> something like the following into their .emacs:
> 
>    (add-hook 'auto-coding-functions (lambda (size) 'utf-8))
> 
> This will let Emacs default to UTF-8 for files that don't already have a 
> coding cookie.

You are assuming that those "remaining developers" use Emacs only for
working on Emacs, is that right?