From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
Cc: 22436-done@debbugs.gnu.org, larsi@gnus.org
Subject: bug#22436: read-coding-system uses wrong default when called from write-file
Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2016 17:39:22 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83io2g1hat.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAPM58oi2sWFV5P87NpHTX_ZZNSo6kouhE=3uMzL5chU_RPWMUw@mail.gmail.com> (message from Richard Copley on Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:38:15 +0000)
> From: Richard Copley <rcopley@gmail.com>
> Date: Mon, 25 Jan 2016 22:38:15 +0000
> Cc: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org>, 22436@debbugs.gnu.org
>
> >> > We can sort the list differently. But if all we want is to always get
> >> > UTF-8 at the head, there's a much easier way, see my other message
> >> > where I mentioned prefer-coding-system.
> >>
> >> I guess I'm just saying that I think the least surprising default coding
> >> system here would be utf-8.
> >
> > For you, maybe. What about all those Chinese out there? What if I'm
> > writing an email to someone in China? Etc., etc.
>
> What about them, and everybody else? UTF-8 is good enough
> for all of us.
Not in the Far East, I'm afraid.
> Eli, you asked earlier if this report should be closed. I guess so!
> As you've explained, it's not a bug. I don't like the default
> behaviour, but it's pretty far down the list of things that I don't
> like about "emacs -Q".
OK, closing. Thanks for pointing that out.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2016-01-26 15:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2016-01-22 19:31 bug#22436: read-coding-system uses wrong default when called from write-file Richard Copley
2016-01-22 21:23 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-22 23:23 ` Richard Copley
2016-01-23 5:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 9:45 ` Richard Copley
2016-01-23 11:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 11:53 ` Richard Copley
2016-01-23 13:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 13:12 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-23 13:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-23 13:55 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2016-01-23 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2016-01-25 22:38 ` Richard Copley
2016-01-26 15:39 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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