From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org
Subject: Re: undecided vs utf-8
Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:01:11 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vd4c42t4.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <jwvy698iqo5.fsf-monnier+emacs@gnu.org>
> From: Stefan Monnier <monnier@iro.umontreal.ca>
> Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:02:15 -0400
>
> > After rooting through this rather confusing system, I guess what I'm
> > saying is that doing
> > (set-coding-system-priority 'utf-8)
> > might, perhaps, make sense? As a default?
>
> I'd tend to agree.
Please don't. The current defaults took a very long time to get to,
and they generally do a good job. So let's not destabilize Emacs in
this area by changing such global defaults so unconditionally, based
on a single use-case of a single program. At least not before we
understand well why Emacs didn't DTRT in that use-case.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-11-05 8:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-11-04 22:27 undecided vs utf-8 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-04 22:40 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 0:02 ` Stefan Monnier
2010-11-05 8:01 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2010-11-05 2:01 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-11-05 2:32 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 4:42 ` Kenichi Handa
2010-11-05 13:02 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 8:09 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-05 13:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 8:10 ` Eli Zaretskii
2010-11-05 12:28 ` Deniz Dogan
2010-11-05 12:50 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
2010-11-05 7:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
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