From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Using utf-8-auto as a process coding system Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:36:51 +0300 Message-ID: <83fvhu4tbg.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1405957037 22164 80.91.229.3 (21 Jul 2014 15:37:17 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 15:37:17 +0000 (UTC) Cc: schwab@suse.de, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Bozhidar Batsov Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jul 21 17:37:10 2014 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1X9FeH-0006VM-UL for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:37:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:34736 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9FeH-0006Ei-Hk for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:37:09 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:34531) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9Fe9-0006EV-Ut for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:37:06 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9Fe5-0001zV-5o for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:37:01 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:44314) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1X9Fe4-0001sg-TR for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 11:36:57 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0N9200M00J631L00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:36:53 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([87.69.4.28]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0N9200LP5JDGXG80@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Mon, 21 Jul 2014 18:36:53 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 X-Received-From: 80.179.55.175 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:173071 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:54:42 +0300 > From: Bozhidar Batsov > Cc: emacs-devel >=20 > On July 21, 2014 at 4:25:04 PM, Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de) wro= te: > Bozhidar Batsov writes:=C2=A0 >=20 > > I was wondering if someone can explain the rationale behind the u= tf-8-auto=C2=A0 > > coding system that=E2=80=99s available in Emacs.=C2=A0 >=20 > UTF-8 (auto-detect signature (BOM))=C2=A0 > So, it=E2=80=99s a good idea to use it for files, but it=E2=80=99s = probably not a good idea to use it as process encoding, because there= likely won=E2=80=99t be a BOM to check? Actually, I don't see why it would be a good idea to use it anywhere. Why did you get a recommendation for this encoding? (Sorry, I didn't find it in the URL you mentioned earlier.) It's sound like a strange recommendation to me.