From: Glenn Morris <rgm@gnu.org>
To: 15803@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:32 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <ybr4awrooj.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> (raw)
Package: emacs
Version: 24.3
Split from http://debbugs.gnu.org/15260
Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> mule-cmds.el calls reset-language-environment, and language/english.el
> calls set-language-info-alist; both have the effect of resetting
> default-file-name-coding-system to latin-1 (!? an interesting
> "default" for a Unicode-era Emacs, perhaps Handa-san could comment why
> we still do that).
I know nothing about this, but eg glib defaults to utf-8, which seems
like a better default to me these days:
https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#file-name-encodings
next reply other threads:[~2013-11-04 18:45 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-11-04 18:45 Glenn Morris [this message]
2017-12-01 1:52 ` bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days? Glenn Morris
2017-12-01 7:54 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-05 0:35 ` Glenn Morris
2017-12-08 9:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-12-12 1:38 ` Glenn Morris
2020-09-09 13:15 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-09 15:00 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-10 13:07 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-10 14:39 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 10:55 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 11:05 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 11:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 12:33 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:41 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 14:18 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 14:27 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 14:46 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-11 14:54 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 15:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-12 8:47 ` Michael Albinus
2020-09-12 11:21 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:39 ` Lars Ingebrigtsen
2020-09-11 12:45 ` Eli Zaretskii
2020-09-09 13:33 ` Stefan Kangas
2020-09-09 15:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
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