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: Sun, 27 Sep 2015 09:03:54 -0700
> Cc: address@hidden
> 
>   -finput-charset=charset
>   Set the input character set, used for translation from the character
>   set of the input file to the source character set used by GCC. If
>   the locale does not specify, or GCC cannot get this information
>   from the locale, the default is UTF-8. This can be overridden by
>   either the locale or this command line option. Currently the command
>   line option takes precedence if there's a conflict. charset can be
>   any encoding supported by the system's iconv library routine.

Note the "if the locale does not specify" clause.  That should almost
never happen.