Re: Unicode and text editors

[Heime via Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor <help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org>]

On Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 7:07 AM, Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> wrote:

> > Date: Sun, 08 Dec 2024 18:55:52 +0000
> > From: Heime heimeborgia@protonmail.com
> > Cc: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org
> > 
> > > I was talking about Emacs. Your original question was about other
> > > editors. I'm not familiar with other modern editors enough to tell
> > > whether you should or should not worry. In particular, I don't know
> > > how they recognize UTF-8, and am not sure that Emacs coding cookies
> > > are supported by them.
> > 
> > Is it reasonable to expect that UTF-* characters are recognised and supported?
> 
> 
> Reasonable? yes. But the problem is not trivial: Emacs itself not
> always recognizes UTF-8 reliably. So there could be problems.
> 
> > What is your school of thought regarding emacs?
> 
> 
> I don't understand the question, sorry.

Should we comfortable use UTF Characters in source code when using Emacs?
When there are problems, do they usually get looked into and fixed if possible?