From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org>
To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
Subject: Re: Understanding how to specify UTF-8
Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 13:54:32 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <83vapy9gk7.fsf@gnu.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <a0872788-6d81-4757-b020-fca1f7420d56@googlegroups.com> (message from Jason Rumney on Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:28:45 -0700 (PDT))
> Date: Fri, 21 Apr 2017 02:28:45 -0700 (PDT)
> From: Jason Rumney <jasonrumney@gmail.com>
>
> On Windows, the system itself does not support UTF-8 fully, so the former is safer. For clipboard and file names on Windows, the latest versions of Emacs will use Unicode regardless of what you specify for the coding system, it is really only process I/O that is the problem - Cygwin and Mingw apps may support UTF-8 I/O, but native Windows apps (including the cmd.exe shell) can have severe difficulties with it.
MinGW apps are native apps, so they don't support UTF-8. I think you
meant MSYS, not MinGW (and then only MSYS2 apps support UTF-8).
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-04-21 10:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2017-04-07 23:43 Understanding how to specify UTF-8 Will Parsons
2017-04-08 7:29 ` Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-13 5:09 ` B. T. Raven
2017-04-13 6:37 ` (unknown) Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-13 7:18 ` Understanding how to specify UTF-8 Eli Zaretskii
2017-04-13 9:42 ` hector
2017-04-14 23:37 ` Will Parsons
2017-04-21 9:28 ` Jason Rumney
2017-04-21 10:54 ` Eli Zaretskii [this message]
2017-04-21 17:36 ` Will Parsons
2017-05-29 15:16 ` Understanding cross version problem Francis Belliveau
2017-05-29 16:38 ` Drew Adams
2017-04-21 18:30 ` Understanding how to specify UTF-8 Stefan Monnier
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