On July 21, 2014 at 6:37:17 PM, Eli Zaretskii (eliz@gnu.org) wrote:
> Date: Mon, 21 Jul 2014 17:54:42 +0300
> From: Bozhidar Batsov <bozhidar@batsov.com>
> Cc: emacs-devel <emacs-devel@gnu.org>
>
> 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?
Actually, I don't see why it would be a good idea to use it anywhere.
Why did you get a recommendation for this encoding? (Sorry, I didn't
find it in the URL you mentioned earlier.) It's sound like a strange
recommendation to me.