From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: non-ASCII characters in auto-save files
Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:44:13 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83ipec902q.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <552e854a-1277-4170-b315-55458d69d622@f8g2000pbf.googlegroups.com>
> From: Xah Lee <xahlee@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 27 Jun 2012 04:52:41 -0700 (PDT)
>
> i thought emacs 23/24 uses a superset of utf-8 as internal encoding?
It does.
> so that i thought those #autosave# files are encoded in utf-8, and as
> long as one open them with utf-8 decoding all chars would show. Is
> this not correct?
Not 100%, because it's a superset. That is, there could be codes
there that UTF-8 will fail to decode.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-27 16:44 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <mailman.3448.1340636607.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-25 23:21 ` non-ASCII characters in auto-save files Stefan Monnier
2012-06-26 10:13 ` grivet
2012-06-26 15:40 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-27 11:52 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-27 16:44 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
[not found] ` <mailman.3571.1340815454.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-27 20:03 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-28 1:07 ` Stefan Monnier
2012-06-28 2:58 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-25 12:46 grivet
2012-06-25 16:56 ` Peter Dyballa
[not found] ` <mailman.3451.1340643405.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-25 22:40 ` Michael Heerdegen
2012-06-25 23:11 ` Peter Dyballa
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