From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: those funny non-ASCII characters
Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2012 09:12:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <837gvr1rxh.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <731567ba-000c-4643-9eff-0237129b90c7@oe8g2000pbb.googlegroups.com>
> From: rusi <rustompmody@gmail.com>
> Date: Thu, 31 May 2012 22:43:07 -0700 (PDT)
>
> 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
We are talking about Emacs, not about Notepad, so it's unclear to me
how what Notepad does is relevant to the OP's question.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-06-01 6:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <mailman.1961.1338398127.855.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2012-06-01 4:23 ` those funny non-ASCII characters Jason Rumney
2012-06-01 5:43 ` rusi
2012-06-01 6:12 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
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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