Re: Unicode and text editors

[Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net>]

On Sun, 2024-12-08 at 13:16 +0000, Heime via Users list for the GNU
Emacs text editor wrote:
> 
> 
> I am using unicode characters in emacs.  What happens when people
> load the
> file in a different text editor?  Will the characters be illegible?
> 


I guess you mean Unicode characters with UTF-8 encoding. I will refer
to the people mentioned in your question as colleagues (but they could
be friends or customers or students or authorities or managers). Your
computer means the computer you are using (probably under Linux) for
GNU emacs. Their computer or the other computer is the one used by the
collague. 

I see several possible issues.

The other computer don't have the required font to display some
character (like a cyrillic letter, or § ....)

The other computer (or your colleague) don't know that the file is UTF-
8 encoded.

The other computer don't have any editor.

the other computer has an editor which does not understand UTF-8
encoding.

The other computer has an editor requiring UTF-16 encoding.

The file has been corrupted during transmission.

Regards

NB my open source project is
https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys (GPLv3+ inference engine)

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