bug#24953: 25.1; Possible inefficiency in UTF-8

[Eli Barzilay <eli@barzilay.org>]

On Wed, Nov 16, 2016 at 2:38 PM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
>> 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 built and installed 25.1, and it looks like the default is also
English.  (At least according to `current-language-environment'.)  Is
that a bug then?


>> (I originally thought that all it gets me is a default encoding for
>> non-ascii files...)
>
> You could customize just that, then.

Using `prefer-coding-system'?  Or something else?


> And I don't really understand why that is needed, either, unless you
> want the files you create to be automatically in UTF-8.

Doesn't that make sense if I almost always edit source code for
languages that use utf-8 to read sources?

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