From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Paul Eggert Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Loading souce Elisp faster Date: Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:41:52 -0800 Message-ID: <512BB070.4090407@cs.ucla.edu> References: <512AF576.8040506@cs.ucla.edu> <837glwjtc9.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1361839576 11805 80.91.229.3 (26 Feb 2013 00:46:16 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2013 00:46:16 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Eli Zaretskii Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Tue Feb 26 01:46:39 2013 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1UA8gp-0005xr-0H for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Tue, 26 Feb 2013 01:46:39 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:37737 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA8gU-0006Fv-4A for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:46:18 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:57116) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA8gQ-0006Fj-Co for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:46:16 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA8gP-0006aH-1i for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 19:46:14 -0500 Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([131.179.128.62]:33790) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1UA2zq-0006VT-Gb; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 13:41:54 -0500 Original-Received: from localhost (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTP id 92AE939E8106; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:41:53 -0800 (PST) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at smtp.cs.ucla.edu Original-Received: from smtp.cs.ucla.edu ([127.0.0.1]) by localhost (smtp.cs.ucla.edu [127.0.0.1]) (amavisd-new, port 10024) with ESMTP id BslYMEn4FzSA; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:41:53 -0800 (PST) Original-Received: from penguin.cs.ucla.edu (Penguin.CS.UCLA.EDU [131.179.64.200]) by smtp.cs.ucla.edu (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id 39CCB39E8105; Mon, 25 Feb 2013 10:41:53 -0800 (PST) User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130219 Thunderbird/17.0.3 In-Reply-To: <837glwjtc9.fsf@gnu.org> X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 131.179.128.62 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:157362 Archived-At: On 02/25/13 07:39, Eli Zaretskii wrote: > AFAIR, some (a small number, perhaps) of them cannot be converted, > because they use characters that we don't unify. Thanks for bringing this up. I'll check for this before converting the Emacs source code to UTF-8. Files that can't be converted, I'll leave in their existing coding system, but I'll move the "coding: WHATEVER" tag to the front as that's more convenient for processing. > converting the files that come with Emacs will still > leave us with gobs of files in external packages, and also with user > .emacs files. Absolutely. We should support those files somehow. Still, Emacs itself should set a good example, and these days UTF-8 is the way to go unless there's a good reason otherwise.