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

[David Kastrup]

Paul Eggert <address@hidden> writes:

> Eli Zaretskii wrote:
>> So you are, in effect, saying that it is incorrect to derive the
>> default encodings from the locale's codeset?
>
> Yes, for Emacs developers.  And come to think of it, for most Emacs
> users.

If the answer is "most" rather than "all", it would be absurd if Emacs
developers were not to use circumstances which they are supposed to
support.

> Nowadays in my experience most non-ASCII text files use UTF-8,
> regardless of locale.

How frequent are you reading Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and
Korean texts?  How relevant is your experience?

-- 
David Kastrup