> And that's why utf-8 is now the recommended coding-system.

Right, but for a person who has hundreds of iso-8859-8 files

(set-coding-system-priority 'utf-8 'iso-2022-7bit 'iso-8859-8 'iso-2022-7bit-lock 'iso-2022-8bit-ss2 'emacs-mule 'raw-text 'iso-2022-jp 'in-is13194-devanagari 'chinese-iso-8bit 'utf-8-auto 'utf-8-with-signature)


Might be better than



(set-coding-system-priority 'utf-8 'iso-2022-7bit 'iso-latin-1 'iso-2022-7bit-lock 'iso-2022-8bit-ss2 'emacs-mule 'raw-text 'iso-2022-jp 'in-is13194-devanagari 'chinese-iso-8bit 'utf-8-auto 'utf-8-with-signature)