From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Nextstep build uses iso-latin by default. WHY? Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:41:11 -0500 Message-ID: References: <56E32A19.7060304@alice.it> <831t7givui.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1457736332 19014 80.91.229.3 (11 Mar 2016 22:45:32 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2016 22:45:32 +0000 (UTC) To: emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Mar 11 23:45:24 2016 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 1aeVoB-0001ct-Ly for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:45:23 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:58075 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVoA-0008Hj-T7 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:45:22 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:58014) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVnx-0008FV-Bb for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:45:10 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVnt-00037a-B2 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:45:09 -0500 Original-Received: from plane.gmane.org ([80.91.229.3]:52768) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVnt-00036x-4f for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 17:45:05 -0500 Original-Received: from list by plane.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1aeVns-0001Oc-74 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com ([69.196.161.194]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:45:04 +0100 Original-Received: from monnier by 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Fri, 11 Mar 2016 23:45:04 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 10 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 69-196-161-194.dsl.teksavvy.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/25.1.50 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:0ryaXb/py/P/b0NScgxdyty/1PA= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Genre and OS details not recognized. X-Received-From: 80.91.229.3 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:201506 Archived-At: > If you only want to have the files' default encoding be UTF-8, add > this to your ~/.emacs: > (setq-default buffer-file-coding-system 'utf-8) The OSX environment has always had a very strong bias towards utf-8, so in the absence of a strong indication that something else than utf-8 is desired, we should always use utf-8 on that platform. Stefan