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| From: | Paul Eggert |
| Subject: | Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files |
| Date: | Sat, 26 Sep 2015 21:44:19 -0700 |
| User-agent: | Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:38.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/38.2.0 |
David Kastrup wrote:
The default is defined by the compiled language. For C, it is essentially 8-bit bytes where the meaning-carrying subset is ASCII.
That was true for C99 and earlier, but it stopped being true in C11, where the source-file encoding does matter and where UTF-8 is the only sane default nowadays.
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