From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Glenn Morris Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.bugs 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 Message-ID: NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1383590876 10830 80.91.229.3 (4 Nov 2013 18:47:56 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:47:56 +0000 (UTC) To: 15803@debbugs.gnu.org Original-X-From: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Nov 04 19:48:01 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA9-0006Mp-Jx for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 19:46:09 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:51497 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA9-0000av-6y for geb-bug-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:09 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56493) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA5-0000ao-Jd for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:06 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA4-0004do-Bt for bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:05 -0500 Original-Received: from debbugs.gnu.org ([140.186.70.43]:48758) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA2-0004cg-Ag; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:02 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-debbugs by debbugs.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdPA1-0002il-SU; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:46:02 -0500 X-Loop: help-debbugs@gnu.org Resent-From: Glenn Morris Original-Sender: "Debbugs-submit" Resent-CC: handa@gnu.org, bug-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Resent-Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:46:01 +0000 Resent-Message-ID: Resent-Sender: help-debbugs@gnu.org X-GNU-PR-Message: report 15803 X-GNU-PR-Package: emacs X-GNU-PR-Keywords: X-Debbugs-Original-To: submit@debbugs.gnu.org X-Debbugs-Original-Xcc: handa@gnu.org Original-Received: via spool by submit@debbugs.gnu.org id=B.138359073810422 (code B ref -1); Mon, 04 Nov 2013 18:46:01 +0000 Original-Received: (at submit) by debbugs.gnu.org; 4 Nov 2013 18:45:38 +0000 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:34544 helo=debbugs.gnu.org) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdP9c-0002i0-9q for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:37 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([208.118.235.10]:47854 ident=Debian-exim) by debbugs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80) (envelope-from ) id 1VdP9Z-0002hs-Td for submit@debbugs.gnu.org; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:34 -0500 Original-Received: from rgm by fencepost.gnu.org with local (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1VdP9Y-0006oA-V4; Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:33 -0500 X-Spook: Fedayeen ASLET e-bomb Crowell munitions pink noise X-Ran: I+YUu@U9]["'q}!\)?Vk}A| List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: bug-gnu-emacs-bounces+geb-bug-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.bugs:79993 Archived-At: 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