Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com> writes:
> I was wondering if someone can explain the rationale behind the utf-8-auto
> coding system that’s available in Emacs.
UTF-8 (auto-detect signature (BOM))
So, it’s a good idea to use it for files, but it’s probably not a good idea to use it as process encoding, because there likely won’t be a BOM to check?
Andreas.
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