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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>, Kenichi Handa <handa@gnu.org>
Cc: 13936@debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 23:54:05 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <83boaojncy.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <513F9B3F.8010607@cs.ucla.edu>

> Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:16:47 -0700
> From: Paul Eggert <eggert@cs.ucla.edu>
> 
> Attached is a proposed patch to change the encoding to UTF-8 for most Emacs
> source files that contain non-ASCII characters.  This shouldn't affect
> the Emacs build or maintenance procedures, as Emacs itself can use
> either UTF-8 or non-UTF-8 encodings.  Switching to UTF-8 does make it
> easier to use non-Emacs tools, such as 'grep -r'.
> 
> This patch is a followon to Bug#13880 but is a bit more ambitious as
> it affects more files.  Like the patch in Bug#13880, the patch is a
> bit tricky to view, since it contains mixed encodings.
> 
> A few files remain in non-UTF-8 encodings, for technical reasons; see
> admin/notes/unicode.  Perhaps some of these can be converted to UTF-8
> some day, but they'll need more work.

I'm not sure converting etc/HELLO is a good idea.  Perhaps Handa-san
could chime in and comment on that matter.





  reply	other threads:[~2013-03-12 21:54 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-03-12 21:16 bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files Paul Eggert
2013-03-12 21:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2013-03-12 22:04 ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-13  0:01   ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-14  3:48   ` handa
2013-03-18  7:22     ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-18  9:43       ` Andreas Schwab
2013-03-18 13:27         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-18 20:40           ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-20  8:18             ` Kenichi Handa
2013-03-20 16:43               ` Paul Eggert
2013-03-20 16:48               ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-02  1:20               ` Paul Eggert
2013-04-03 18:31                 ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-03 18:39                   ` Eli Zaretskii
2013-04-04  0:35                     ` Stefan Monnier
2013-04-05 15:03                       ` Kenichi Handa
2013-04-05 18:58                         ` Stefan Monnier
2013-03-18 20:44           ` Paul Eggert

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