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From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
To: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <201806110459.w5B4xAkB021095@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <83o9gkrnik.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:24:35 +0300)

Hey Eli,

> > (set-language-environment "UTF-8")
> 
> Setting the language environment to UTF-8 is precisely something
> that's NOT recommended to Windows users, because MS-Windows doesn't
> support UTF-8 at all as a codeset.  Emacs on Windows does, but the
> UTF-8 language environment will, among other things, cause Emacs to
> pass command-line arguments to programs encoded in UTF-8, something
> that will not work.

What about other platforms ? Is it considered harmless to set it ?

Thank you.
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2018-06-11  4:59 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-06-06 19:57 Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-06 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-06 21:23   ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07  7:31     ` Van L
2018-06-07  2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
     [not found] ` <mailman.1389.1528339036.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-09 10:20   ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-09 12:19     ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-09 15:00     ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-06-09 15:24       ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-09 19:35         ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-06-11  4:59         ` Xavier Maillard [this message]
2018-06-11 15:15           ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-12  4:38             ` Xavier Maillard
     [not found]       ` <mailman.1597.1528557879.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-12 17:32         ` Sivaram Neelakantan
     [not found]     ` <mailman.1587.1528546789.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-09 19:44       ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-10  2:33         ` Eli Zaretskii

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