From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1
Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 18:15:35 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83muw1qrqg.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201806110459.w5B4xAkB021095@localhost.localdomain> (message from Xavier Maillard on Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200)
> Date: Mon, 11 Jun 2018 06:59:10 +0200
> From: Xavier Maillard <xavier@maillard.im>
> CC: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
>
> > Setting the language environment to UTF-8 is precisely something
> > that's NOT recommended to Windows users, because MS-Windows doesn't
> > support UTF-8 at all as a codeset. Emacs on Windows does, but the
> > UTF-8 language environment will, among other things, cause Emacs to
> > pass command-line arguments to programs encoded in UTF-8, something
> > that will not work.
>
> What about other platforms ? Is it considered harmless to set it ?
On Posix platforms, sure. (But make sure your filesystem has file
names encoded in UTF-8, or else all file names will appear as
mojibake.)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-06-11 15:15 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-06-06 19:57 Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-06 20:59 ` Stefan Monnier
2018-06-06 21:23 ` Drew Adams
2018-06-07 7:31 ` Van L
2018-06-07 2:37 ` Eli Zaretskii
[not found] ` <mailman.1389.1528339036.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-09 10:20 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-09 12:19 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-09 15:00 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-06-09 15:24 ` Eli Zaretskii
2018-06-09 19:35 ` Filipp Gunbin
2018-06-11 4:59 ` Xavier Maillard
2018-06-11 15:15 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2018-06-12 4:38 ` Xavier Maillard
[not found] ` <mailman.1597.1528557879.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-12 17:32 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
[not found] ` <mailman.1587.1528546789.1292.help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>
2018-06-09 19:44 ` Sivaram Neelakantan
2018-06-10 2:33 ` Eli Zaretskii
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