From: <tomas@tuxteam.de>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: what coding system to select when I insert a unicode character
Date: Wed, 26 Dec 2018 11:47:54 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181226104754.GA8676@tuxteam.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAAtGUhU13DQrAjrVimzRCYEg-mQ8xQh_G27j9RvZvrY6kzfd7Q@mail.gmail.com>
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On Wed, Dec 26, 2018 at 10:38:37AM +0000, Angus Comber wrote:
> I sometimes need to insert mathematical symbols into my emacs text files
> and when I do I get prompted for a coding system. And the default is
> japanese-shift-jis which seems strange when less than half the population
> of the world is Japanese. I am in the UK, what coding system should I use?
Almost always utf-8. Select utf-8-unix, utf-8-dos or utf-8-mac depending
on your preferred platform (they differ in the line endings).
Cheers
-- tomás
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-12-26 10:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-12-26 10:38 what coding system to select when I insert a unicode character Angus Comber
2018-12-26 10:47 ` tomas [this message]
2018-12-26 15:44 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-12-26 16:03 ` tomas
2018-12-26 15:43 ` Eli Zaretskii
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