From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.io!.POSTED.blaine.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: "W. Greenhouse" via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Unicode and text editors Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 15:15:31 +0000 Message-ID: References: <2427ab10a48abba2c811bcb01f4e74ce3832794f.camel@starynkevitch.net> Reply-To: "W. Greenhouse" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Injection-Info: ciao.gmane.io; posting-host="blaine.gmane.org:116.202.254.214"; logging-data="40606"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@ciao.gmane.io" User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Cancel-Lock: sha1:B3m1dyzmQRn8yBLPGNH7GhmshhE= Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Sun Dec 08 16:19:50 2024 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([209.51.188.17]) by ciao.gmane.io with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tKJ4Y-000AQb-9E for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:19:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1] helo=lists1p.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tKJ4B-0000AA-R8; Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:19:27 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:470:142:3::10]) by lists.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tKJ49-0000A1-RN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from ciao.gmane.io ([116.202.254.214]) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.2:ECDHE_RSA_AES_256_GCM_SHA384:256) (Exim 4.90_1) (envelope-from ) id 1tKJ48-0001RM-I5 for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2024 10:19:25 -0500 Original-Received: from list by ciao.gmane.io with local (Exim 4.92) (envelope-from ) id 1tKJ45-000A0d-KN for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sun, 08 Dec 2024 16:19:21 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Received-SPF: pass client-ip=116.202.254.214; envelope-from=geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane-mx.org; helo=ciao.gmane.io X-Spam_score_int: -15 X-Spam_score: -1.6 X-Spam_bar: - X-Spam_report: (-1.6 / 5.0 requ) BAYES_00=-1.9, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS=0.249, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_RPBL_BLOCKED=0.001, RCVD_IN_VALIDITY_SAFE_BLOCKED=0.001, SPF_HELO_NONE=0.001, SPF_PASS=-0.001 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no X-Spam_action: no action X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.29 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-mx.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane-mx.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.io gmane.emacs.help:148683 Archived-At: Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor writes: > > Is this becoming the norm? What about emacs? > > Does emacs encourage use of unicode characters (UTF-8) in code comments > and documentation? > UTF-8 represents Emacs' internal text encoding and also its default preference for new files. When visiting existing files it attempts to detect the encoding, and maintain it while editing.