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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Unicode and text editors
Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 20:44:42 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <861pyif205.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <VpTsRgeCxJL-JNeghs40Qt5cLBHbFykIIGYBA6zMT8AkgKUGc_RobIkWbXrtJnf4MVOF_oHrD4iCYJk1jS92lbFA2SjCpB_1htjcPAV0gv0=@protonmail.com> (message from Heime on Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:54:43 +0000)

> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 17:54:43 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> > > When visiting existing files it attempts to
> > > detect the encoding, and maintain it while editing.
> > 
> > That is correct.
> 
> Does this mean that we should not worry when we use UTF-8?   Would
> UTF-* be supported, and detected.  With the appropriate symbols showing
> as they should.

I was talking about Emacs.  Your original question was about other
editors.  I'm not familiar with other modern editors enough to tell
whether you should or should not worry.  In particular, I don't know
how they recognize UTF-8, and am not sure that Emacs coding cookies
are supported by them.



  reply	other threads:[~2024-12-08 18:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2024-12-08 13:16 Unicode and text editors Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 13:29 ` Jean Louis
2024-12-08 13:31 ` Basile Starynkevitch
2024-12-08 14:02   ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 15:15     ` W. Greenhouse via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 16:32       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 17:54         ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 18:44           ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2024-12-08 18:55             ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 19:07               ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 19:39                 ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 20:43                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-08 20:48                     ` Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-09  3:24                       ` Eli Zaretskii
2024-12-09  3:35                   ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor
2024-12-08 16:06 ` Stefan Monnier via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor

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