Re: Disambiguate modeline character for UTF-8?

[Eli Zaretskii]

> From: Basil Contovounesios <contovob@tcd.ie>
> Cc: ulm@gentoo.org,  eggert@cs.ucla.edu,  emacs-devel@gnu.org
> Date: Sat, 08 Jul 2023 17:21:15 +0100
> 
> > *.el files are always UTF-8 encoded, so there's no need to use only
> > ASCII.
> 
> ...I see cyrillic.el explicitly declares -*- coding: utf-8 -*-.

That's history.  Nowadays we have this in file-coding-system-alist:

   ("\\.el\\'" . prefer-utf-8)

> Is this what you had in mind?

Yes, thanks.