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

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Chad Brown <address@hidden>
> Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:26:52 -0700
> 
> 
> > On 26 Sep 2015, at 12:35, Eli Zaretskii <address@hidden> wrote:
> > 
> > The relevant statistics for Emacs is of source files, not of HTML
> > pages.
> 
> The default for GCC is UTF-8.

GCC doesn't write C sources, so its default are not very relevant,
even if you are right in the above assessment (and I don't think you
are).

> Python requires a coding cookie (intentionally similar to Emacs’) to get away 
> from Latin-1. Java is UTF-8. Javascript, roughly speaking, tracks HTML. Which 
> other languages did you have in mind?

All the rest of them.