From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
Cc: 24953@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8
Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 21:38:50 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83eg2bfc51.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CALO-guue9J24OZgLdonzkPo_X3=MyC3zkdfDz7REEFcnsxtdtA@mail.gmail.com> (message from Eli Barzilay on Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:11:57 -0500)
> From: Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>
> Date: Wed, 16 Nov 2016 14:11:57 -0500
> Cc: 24953-done@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> > Regardless of the issue reported here, I would advise against setting
> > the UTF-8 language environment on MS-Windows. [...]
> > You shouldn't need to do this, not in Emacs 25 anyway.
>
> Is it a good idea to use it on linux?
Yes. (And it should be the default on GNU/Linux, at least on most of
its flavors.)
> (I originally thought that all it gets me is a default encoding for
> non-ascii files...)
You could customize just that, then. And I don't really understand
why that is needed, either, unless you want the files you create to be
automatically in UTF-8.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-11-16 19:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-11-16 4:25 bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8 Eli Barzilay
2016-11-16 16:17 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-16 19:11 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-16 19:38 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2016-11-16 19:59 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-16 20:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-20 22:32 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-21 3:32 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-11-21 21:38 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-11-22 3:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-12-11 10:53 ` Eli Barzilay
2016-12-11 15:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
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