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: undecided vs utf-8 Date: Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:01:11 +0200 Message-ID: <83vd4c42t4.fsf@gnu.org> References: Reply-To: Eli Zaretskii NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org X-Trace: dough.gmane.org 1288944117 17188 80.91.229.12 (5 Nov 2010 08:01:57 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@dough.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Fri, 5 Nov 2010 08:01:57 +0000 (UTC) Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org To: Stefan Monnier Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Fri Nov 05 09:01:51 2010 Return-path: Envelope-to: ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHF8-0002FE-FH for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 09:01:50 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:43621 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PEHF7-0003aP-A6 for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:01:49 -0400 Original-Received: from [140.186.70.92] (port=51054 helo=eggs.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1PEHEx-0003Y7-G7 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:01:40 -0400 Original-Received: from Debian-exim by eggs.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHEw-000063-EM for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:01:39 -0400 Original-Received: from mtaout23.012.net.il ([80.179.55.175]:49855) by eggs.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1PEHEw-00005m-64 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 04:01:38 -0400 Original-Received: from conversion-daemon.a-mtaout23.012.net.il by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) id <0LBE00K00I690X00@a-mtaout23.012.net.il> for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:01:06 +0200 (IST) Original-Received: from HOME-C4E4A596F7 ([77.126.249.126]) by a-mtaout23.012.net.il (HyperSendmail v2007.08) with ESMTPA id <0LBE00KK8JLT6820@a-mtaout23.012.net.il>; Fri, 05 Nov 2010 10:01:06 +0200 (IST) In-reply-to: X-012-Sender: halo1@inter.net.il X-detected-operating-system: by eggs.gnu.org: Solaris 10 (beta) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:132390 Archived-At: > From: Stefan Monnier > Date: Thu, 04 Nov 2010 20:02:15 -0400 > > > After rooting through this rather confusing system, I guess what I'm > > saying is that doing > > (set-coding-system-priority 'utf-8) > > might, perhaps, make sense? As a default? > > I'd tend to agree. Please don't. The current defaults took a very long time to get to, and they generally do a good job. So let's not destabilize Emacs in this area by changing such global defaults so unconditionally, based on a single use-case of a single program. At least not before we understand well why Emacs didn't DTRT in that use-case.