From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: bidi, hebrew: files may need to be utf-8 with a byte order mark Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 20:54:45 +0200 Message-ID: <834lao2qyy.fsf@gnu.org> References: <87pntcuz0l.fsf@mat.ucm.es> NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1546627984 7021 195.159.176.226 (4 Jan 2019 18:53:04 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 4 Jan 2019 18:53:04 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Uwe Brauer Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Jan 04 19:53:00 2019 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@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 1gfUaZ-0001i6-FT for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 19:52:59 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:38196 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfUcg-0007D1-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:55:10 -0500 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([208.118.235.92]:39659) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfUca-0007Cu-Om for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:55:05 -0500 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfUcX-0006Z3-Gs for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:55:04 -0500 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:35868) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1gfUcX-0006Yx-DV; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:55:01 -0500 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=1341 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1gfUcX-0002Pm-13; Fri, 04 Jan 2019 13:55:01 -0500 In-reply-to: <87pntcuz0l.fsf@mat.ucm.es> (message from Uwe Brauer on Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:13:30 +0100) X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.2.x-3.x [generic] X-Received-From: 2001:4830:134:3::e X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 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" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:232170 Archived-At: > From: Uwe Brauer > Date: Fri, 04 Jan 2019 18:13:30 +0100 > > I am trying to contribute to the keyman project and provide a phonetic > hebrew keyboard layout. It was pointed out to me by the maintainers, > that I should use > > ,---- > | One issue is that some of the files may need to be utf-8 with a byte > | order mark. I would suggest using Visual Studio Code as the editor. It > | will reduce grief on Mac OS or Linux. > `---- > > I would like to know whether GNU emacs (master) satisfies these > requirements. I am pretty sure it does, but would like to get a > confirmation, best by Eli. I don't think I understand the question. If you ask whether Emacs supports UTF-8 encoding with BOM, then the answer is yes: see coding-system utf-8-with-signature. Emacs has supported this since long ago, not just on master. But this has no direct relation to bidi.