From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Eli Zaretskii Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: [Emacs-diffs] master db828f6: Don't rely on defaults in decoding UTF-8 encoded Lisp files Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:26:30 +0300 Message-ID: <83vbaxf5x5.fsf@gnu.org> References: <20150921165211.20434.28114@vcs.savannah.gnu.org> <83fv27mt7r.fsf@gnu.org> <83wpvfix7i.fsf@gnu.org> <83fv23hr0z.fsf@gnu.org> <5605CB6B.4000102@cs.ucla.edu> <83twqhhf0g.fsf@gnu.org> <5606AC48.7090801@cs.ucla.edu> <83zj09fbzp.fsf@gnu.org> <5606C140.6090309@cs.ucla.edu> <878u7trwlb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1443288425 26907 80.91.229.3 (26 Sep 2015 17:27:05 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 17:27:05 +0000 (UTC) Cc: eggert@cs.ucla.edu, monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org To: David Kastrup Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Sep 26 19:26:56 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1ZftF4-0004T4-2j for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 19:26:34 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:54679 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZftF3-0004Mo-Ee for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:26:33 -0400 Original-Received: from eggs.gnu.org ([2001:4830:134:3::10]:35917) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZftF0-0004MS-Cf for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:26:31 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZftEz-0008Mi-M1 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:26:30 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout27.012.net.il ([80.179.55.183]:54327) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1ZftEv-0008Je-9y; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 13:26:25 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.mtaout27.012.net.il by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0NVA00L00NUO2Y00@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:22:41 +0300 (IDT) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([84.94.185.246]) by mtaout27.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0NVA00G6YO9TPB70@mtaout27.012.net.il>; Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:22:41 +0300 (IDT) In-reply-to: <878u7trwlb.fsf@fencepost.gnu.org> X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6.x X-Received-From: 80.179.55.183 X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.14 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:190365 Archived-At: > From: David Kastrup > Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 18:09:36 +0200 > Cc: Eli Zaretskii , monnier@iro.umontreal.ca, emacs-devel@gnu.org > > > Nowadays in my experience most non-ASCII text files use UTF-8, > > regardless of locale. > > How frequent are you reading Hebrew, Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, and > Korean texts? How relevant is your experience? Indeed, I think Far Eastern locales frequently use non-UTF-8 encodings.