Re: ASCII-only startup message?

[Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>]

John Wiegley wrote:
> What is "shiny and new" can
> sometimes be quite meretricious, and is not realized as such until after the
> excitement has passed.

Quite true. Conversely, I can remember folks telling me that plain '\n' as a 
line terminator was a newfangled idea and probably wouldn’t catch on. The good 
old days!

For what it’s worth here are Emacs’s opinions of the encodings for the files in 
emacs-25. It has 453 UTF-8 files, and 37 files with some other text encoding 
that is not ASCII.

  #files encoding		example file

    1546 undecided-unix		INSTALL
    1394 prefer-utf-8-unix	lisp/abbrev.el
     444 utf-8-unix		INSTALL.REPO
     279 no-conversion		etc/images/undo.pbm
      14 iso-2022-7bit-unix	etc/HELLO
       9 chinese-big5-unix	leim/CXTERM-DIC/ZOZY.tit
       8 undecided-dos		nt/configure.bat
       7 chinese-iso-8bit-unix	CXTERM-DIC/QJ.tit
       7 utf-8-emacs-unix	lisp/language/tibetan.el
       2 utf-8-dos		test/etags/html-src/algrthms.html
       1 chinese-big5-dos	leim/MISC-DIC/cangjie-table.b5
       1 chinese-iso-8bit-dos	leim/MISC-DIC/pinyin.map
       1 cp850-unix		src/msdos.c
       1 iso-2022-cn-ext-dos	leim/MISC-DIC/cangjie-table.cns
       1 iso-2022-jp-unix	etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ja
       1 japanese-iso-8bit-unix	leim/SKK-DIC/SKK-JISYO.L
       1 japanese-shift-jis-unix	admin/charsets/mapfiles/cns2ucsdkw.txt