From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Xavier Maillard Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200 Organization: GNU's NOT Unix! Message-ID: <201806110459.w5B4xAkB021095@localhost.localdomain> References: <83o9gkrnik.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528693153 6268 195.159.176.226 (11 Jun 2018 04:59:13 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 04:59:13 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Rmail on GNU Emacs/26.1 (26.1) Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Mon Jun 11 06:59:09 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 1fSEv7-0001Y9-3X for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:09 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:46512 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSExC-0000Uy-N9 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:01:18 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:56806) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSEwY-0000Ug-Pn for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:00:39 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSEwY-0002lu-0d for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:00:38 -0400 Original-Received: from relay11.mail.gandi.net ([217.70.178.231]:44067) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS1.0:DHE_RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fSEwS-0002fO-W8; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 01:00:33 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (1.80.136.77.rev.sfr.net [77.136.80.1]) (Authenticated sender: xavier@maillard.im) by relay11.mail.gandi.net (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id A963710000C; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 05:00:29 +0000 (UTC) Original-Received: from localhost.localdomain (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTP id w5B4xAuU021096; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200 Original-Received: (from xavier@localhost) by localhost.localdomain (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id w5B4xAkB021095; Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200 In-reply-to: <83o9gkrnik.fsf@gnu.org> (message from Eli Zaretskii on Sat, 09 Jun 2018 18:24:35 +0300) Jabber-ID: xavier@maillard.im X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] [fuzzy] X-Received-From: 217.70.178.231 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:117098 Archived-At: Hey Eli, > > (set-language-environment "UTF-8") > > 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 ? Thank you. -- Xavier Maillard e/j:xavier@maillard.im w:www.maillard.im m: 06 52 18 63 43 GPG: 9983 DCA1 1FAC 8DA7 653A F9AA BA49 09B7 8F04 DE1B