Re: Encoding of etc/HELLO

[Michael Albinus <michael.albinus@gmx.de>]

Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:

Hi Eli,

> Michael, your recent changes to encode HELLO in UTF-8 are problematic
> and AFAIU should be reverted, because they lose the CJK charset
> information.  See
>
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/emacs-devel/2009-08/msg01409.html
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2013-03/msg00429.html
>   http://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/bug-gnu-emacs/2013-03/msg00475.html
>
> and the surrounding discussions for more about that.

I see. No problem to revert the patch, it isn't important.

However, quoting the last reference above

--8<---------------cut here---------------start------------->8---
When a file is in some legacy encoding such as iso-2022-7bit, Emacs
attached charset properties to proper ranges of text, which works as a
hint for selecting a proper font especially for CJK characters.
--8<---------------cut here---------------end--------------->8---

I'm wondering why it is possible to attach charset properties for
iso-2022-7bit, but not for utf-8. Note, that I don't know too much about
this topic.

Best regards, Michael.