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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: David Kastrup <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:09:36 +0200
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden>, address@hidden, address@hidden
> 
> > 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?

Indeed, I think Far Eastern locales frequently use non-UTF-8
encodings.