Re: Unicode and text editors

[Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>]

> Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 19:39:55 +0000
> From: Heime <heimeborgia@protonmail.com>
> Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> 
> 
> On Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 7:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:
> 
> > > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:55:52 +0000
> > > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > > 
> > > > 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.
> > > 
> > > Is it reasonable to expect that UTF-* characters are recognised and supported?
> > 
> > 
> > Reasonable? yes. But the problem is not trivial: Emacs itself not
> > always recognizes UTF-8 reliably. So there could be problems.
> > 
> > > What is your school of thought regarding emacs?
> > 
> > 
> > I don't understand the question, sorry.
> 
> Should we comfortable use UTF Characters in source code when using Emacs?
> When there are problems, do they usually get looked into and fixed if possible? 

If you are talking about Emacs, then my recommendation is to always
use a coding: cookie.  Then it's 100% reliable when Emacs reads the
file.