From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Stefan Monnier Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8 Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:30:36 -0400 Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1492799479 32375 195.159.176.226 (21 Apr 2017 18:31:19 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 18:31:19 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.0.50 (gnu/linux) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Apr 21 20:31:15 2017 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 1d1dKs-0008J1-IW for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:31:14 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:60955 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1dKy-0003I2-ED for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:31:20 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:38938) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1dKX-0003HZ-Fd for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:30:54 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1dKS-0006Ok-JN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:30:53 -0400 Original-Received: from [195.159.176.226] (port=53554 helo=blaine.gmane.org) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:RSA_AES_128_CBC_SHA1:16) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1d1dKS-0006NX-CT for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 14:30:48 -0400 Original-Received: from list by blaine.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1d1dKH-0007TY-Di for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Fri, 21 Apr 2017 20:30:37 +0200 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 8 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:VzE2UHpPXB0vFVBCQ38FVcKKE8c= X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 195.159.176.226 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:112845 Archived-At: > I want to always use Unicode/UTF-8 unless otherwise specified. If your locale is using utf-8 (which it should nowadays in most cases under GNU/Linux, especially if you "want to always use Unicode/UTF-8"), then Emacs should already do that automatically. Stefan