From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:15:35 +0300 Message-ID: <83muw1qrqg.fsf@gnu.org> References: <83o9gkrnik.fsf@gnu.org> <201806110459.w5B4xAkB021095@localhost.localdomain> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528730056 7833 195.159.176.226 (11 Jun 2018 15:14:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 15:14:16 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 17:14:12 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOWI-0001wi-LZ for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 17:14:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:49468 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOYP-0004zu-Jr for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:16:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:39126) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOXc-0004yo-HY for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:15:33 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOXX-0000ST-LI for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:15:32 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:45901) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOXX-0000SI-Gj for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:15:27 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=2013 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fSOXW-0002kD-UD for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 11:15:27 -0400 In-reply-to: <201806110459.w5B4xAkB021095@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117104 Archived-At: > Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200 > From: Xavier Maillard > CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org > > > 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 ? On Posix platforms, sure. (But make sure your filesystem has file names encoded in UTF-8, or else all file names will appear as mojibake.)