* Preferred coding system for Japanese environments
@ 2017-10-06 21:47 Paul Eggert
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From: Paul Eggert @ 2017-10-06 21:47 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Emacs development discussions
In Bug#28705 it's proposed to change the default coding system for
Japanese on non-MS-Windows systems from japanese-iso-8bit (aka EUC-JP)
to utf-8, under the argument that most users of Emacs who are running
under GNU, BSD or Unix systems prefer UTF-8 nowadays.
As I understand it, this change would not affect users who specify
locales via environment variables (e.g., LC_ALL='ja_JP.utf8' or
LC_ALL='ja_JP.eucjp' on GNU/Linux). It would affect only users who
specify Japanese (presumably, in their .emacs files) without specifying
a coding system.
I'm giving this heads-up on emacs-devel as it would be an incompatible
change to longstanding practice. Please reply to 28705@debbugs.gnu.org
if you have comments or suggestions. For more, please see:
https://debbugs.gnu.org/cgi/bugreport.cgi?bug=28705
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