From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
To: Yuri Khan <yuri.v.khan@gmail.com>, Random832 <random832@fastmail.com>
Cc: Emacs developers <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: ASCII-only startup message?
Date: Tue, 29 Dec 2015 09:05:10 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5682BD46.3000108@cs.ucla.edu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAP_d_8Unuh_hzz=36PaoxC9AvLPd_ksk-hPG+sOzcmPoxNx70A@mail.gmail.com>
Yuri Khan wrote:
> <contentious suggestion>
> Alternatively, new buffers could be initially created with the UTF-8
> encoding, leaving the locale-specified encoding only for dealing with
> legacy files.
> </contentious suggestion>
It would be reasonable to add an option to Emacs to behave that way, though we
should probably not make this behavior the default (at least, not without having
more experience in its use).
As for UTF-8 “conquering the world”; obviously it hasn’t done that yet, and
Emacs will need to support legacy encodings for quite some time. That being
said, recent surveys from W3Techs continues to show steady growth for UTF-8 on
the Web, with 86% of websites currently using UTF-8 (up from 82% a year ago).
All other encodings are declining in use, or at best remaining constant to
within the stated precision of measurement (e.g., EUC-KR at 0.4%).
http://w3techs.com/technologies/history_overview/character_encoding
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2015-12-29 17:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 61+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2015-12-26 17:25 ASCII-only startup message? Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:41 ` Random832
2015-12-26 18:50 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:11 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:01 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 19:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 19:40 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-26 20:50 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-26 23:28 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 0:17 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 1:03 ` Clément Pit--Claudel
2015-12-27 2:51 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 1:09 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 15:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 18:45 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-27 6:58 ` Random832
2015-12-27 14:17 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 14:55 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 16:35 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 17:42 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 19:27 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-27 22:47 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-27 23:45 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28 2:01 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 5:51 ` Random832
2015-12-28 10:09 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 6:05 ` Per Starbäck
2015-12-28 10:13 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 9:12 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 10:15 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 14:59 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 18:39 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 9:37 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-28 10:16 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 7:05 ` Random832
2015-12-29 8:01 ` Yuri Khan
2015-12-29 14:38 ` Random832
2015-12-29 15:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:05 ` Paul Eggert [this message]
2015-12-29 18:00 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-29 18:16 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 19:24 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:55 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-29 17:40 ` Drew Adams
2015-12-28 16:31 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 3:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2015-12-27 8:12 ` Nikolai Weibull
2015-12-28 20:04 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 6:50 ` Richard Stallman
2015-12-29 16:55 ` John Wiegley
2015-12-29 17:30 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 18:18 ` Drew Adams
2016-01-01 13:29 ` Marcin Borkowski
2016-01-01 17:48 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-01 17:50 ` John Wiegley
2016-01-02 8:14 ` Paul Eggert
2015-12-29 15:05 ` Random832
2015-12-29 16:49 ` John Wiegley
[not found] ` <<n5u7gn$6vh$1@ger.gmane.org>
2015-12-29 17:46 ` Drew Adams
[not found] <<567ECD8C.1070408@cs.ucla.edu>
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