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

[Paul Eggert]

Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> The relevant statistics for Emacs is of source files, not of HTML
> pages.

Sure, and source files are how this thread got started: nowadays in GNU projects 
they're typically UTF-8 regardless of system locale settings, and Emacs should 
be better about supporting this typical situation.  UTF-8 is common partly 
because source files are shared widely via the Internet, on sites like Savannah.

The days of lonely hackers writing code in their own private Shift-JIS 
directories are largely over.  Of course Emacs can still support such users, but 
the default should be tailored to what's more typical nowadays.