From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:19:43 +0300 Message-ID: <83sh5wrw2o.fsf@gnu.org> References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528546694 20123 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2018 12:18:14 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 12:18:14 +0000 (UTC) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 09 14:18:10 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@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 1fRcos-000592-88 for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 14:18:10 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:40210 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcqz-0004nk-6Q for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:20:21 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:44951) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcqO-0004mb-Ht for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:19:45 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcqL-0004jf-DX for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:19:44 -0400 Original-Received: from fencepost.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::e]:46619) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcqL-0004jW-9s for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:19:41 -0400 Original-Received: from [176.228.60.248] (port=3778 helo=home-c4e4a596f7) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtpsa (TLS1.2:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:256) (Exim 4.82) (envelope-from ) id 1fRcqK-0005kK-Ge for help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 08:19:41 -0400 In-reply-to: (message from Sivaram Neelakantan on Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:50:08 +0530) 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: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117067 Archived-At: > From: Sivaram Neelakantan > Date: Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:50:08 +0530 > > > Please explain what you mean by "work in Unicode". I don't think I > > understand the issues you are having or are envisioning to have. And > > "Unicode" has a very specific interpretation in the Windows world, in > > some contexts. > > I have no issues so far; all I wanted to know was whether there are > any .Emacs settings that needs to be fiddled with to make Unicode work > on Windows. I just checked the Hello file, all languages seem to > render correctly in terms of the chars that I see. I see that the > modeline has got a U with a tooltip 'utf-8-emacs-dos' which should > allow me to work in Emacs and nonemacs Windows application like > notepad(reading the file for e.g)? Well, that doesn't really answer my question, sop I'd try to answer what I think you may be asking. . Visiting UTF-8 encoded files should "just work". . If you want to _create_ UTF-8 encoded files, you will need to request that explicitly using "C-x RET c" before saving a file. . Visiting UTF-16 encoded files may require "C-x RET c" before "C-x C-f". (UTF-16 is what is called "Unicode" on Windows, which was one reason why I asked my question.) . File names are supported even if they include characters not supported by the current system codepage. . Receiving sub-process output encoded in UTF-8 should work with programs known to output UTF-8, such as Git; in other cases you may need to use "C-x RET c" or customize your process-coding-system-alist. . Beware of passing to programs command-line arguments encoded in UTF-8: that doesn't work. HTH