From: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de>
Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
Subject: Re: Using utf-8-auto as a process coding system
Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:54:42 +0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <etPan.53cd29b3.2ca88611.daeb@Bozhidars-MacBook-Pro.local> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <mvmwqb6lu8g.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
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On July 21, 2014 at 4:25:04 PM, Andreas Schwab (schwab@suse.de) wrote:
Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com> writes:
> I was wondering if someone can explain the rationale behind the utf-8-auto
> coding system that’s available in Emacs.
UTF-8 (auto-detect signature (BOM))
So, it’s a good idea to use it for files, but it’s probably not a good idea to use it as process encoding, because there likely won’t be a BOM to check?
Andreas.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-07-21 14:54 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-07-21 13:15 Using utf-8-auto as a process coding system Bozhidar Batsov
2014-07-21 13:25 ` Andreas Schwab
2014-07-21 14:54 ` Bozhidar Batsov [this message]
2014-07-21 15:36 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-22 5:55 ` Bozhidar Batsov
2014-07-25 13:03 ` Eli Zaretskii
2014-07-28 15:05 ` Bozhidar Batsov
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