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Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?


From: Paul Eggert
Subject: Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?
Date: Thu, 6 Jul 2023 10:37:53 -0700
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On 2023-07-06 06:08, Ulrich Mueller wrote:
for both UTF-7 and koi8-u the coded character set is not
Unicode but only a subset of it

It would be helpful to use 'u' when only a subset of Unicode can be represented, as a clue that something odd is going on, compared to the more-usual 'U'.

Also, Andreas made a good point: since GB18030 encodes Unicode, shouldn't it be displayed as 'U' too? Why treat it specially?



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