From: rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: those funny non-ASCII characters
Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:43:07 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <731567ba-000c-4643-9eff-0237129b90c7@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: db722264-f6bf-4631-90de-3ec785ea46bf@googlegroups.com
On Jun 1, 9:23 am, Jason Rumney <jasonrum...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Thursday, 31 May 2012 01:15:11 UTC+8, Buchs, Kevin wrote:
> > Xah suggested I embrace Unicode. So I could use (prefer-coding-system
> > 'utf-8) or the file variable: -*- coding: utf-8 -*-. Are there drawbacks
> > to the former? What about opening an ASCII coded file? Can emacs
> > properly detect it or does it come up as UTF-8?
>
> ASCII is a subset of UTF-8, so the problem you are imagining does not exist.
This does not exactly work that way on windows.
eg recently saw a description of how notepad put a BOM mark in a
haskell-script which made the haskell scripts unrunnable
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 5:43 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
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2012-06-01 4:23 ` those funny non-ASCII characters Jason Rumney
2012-06-01 5:43 ` rusi [this message]
2012-06-01 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-06-01 7:03 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-01 16:26 ` rusi
2012-06-01 21:06 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-02 3:17 ` rusi
2012-06-02 11:54 ` Xah Lee
2012-06-02 14:10 ` Xah Lee
2012-05-30 17:15 Buchs, Kevin
2012-05-31 7:17 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-05-31 14:57 ` Buchs, Kevin
2012-05-31 16:40 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-05-31 16:56 ` Buchs, Kevin
2012-05-31 21:46 ` Thien-Thi Nguyen
2012-06-01 13:36 ` Doug Lewan
[not found] ` <mailman.2041.1338500734.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-01 2:42 ` rusi
2012-05-31 15:59 ` PJ Weisberg
[not found] <mailman.1665.1337953237.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-25 18:33 ` Xah Lee
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2012-05-25 13:40 Buchs, Kevin
2012-05-25 14:04 ` Eli Zaretskii
2012-05-25 14:42 ` Jambunathan K
[not found] <mailman.1638.1337903381.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-05-25 0:56 ` Xah Lee
2012-05-24 23:49 Buchs, Kevin
2012-05-25 6:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
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