From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: Sivaram Neelakantan Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.help Subject: Re: Going Unicode all out in Emacs 26.1 Date: Sun, 10 Jun 2018 01:14:21 +0530 Organization: A noiseless patient Spider Message-ID: References: NNTP-Posting-Host: blaine.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain X-Trace: blaine.gmane.org 1528573405 18112 195.159.176.226 (9 Jun 2018 19:43:25 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@blaine.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 9 Jun 2018 19:43:25 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/26.1 (windows-nt) To: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org Original-X-From: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat Jun 09 21:43:21 2018 Return-path: Envelope-to: geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([208.118.235.17]) by blaine.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.84_2) (envelope-from ) id 1fRjlg-0004Zv-Bo for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 21:43:20 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([::1]:41317 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.71) (envelope-from ) id 1fRjnl-0000uv-HU for geh-help-gnu-emacs@m.gmane.org; Sat, 09 Jun 2018 15:45:29 -0400 Original-Path: usenet.stanford.edu!goblin2!goblin1!goblin.stu.neva.ru!eternal-september.org!feeder.eternal-september.org!reader02.eternal-september.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail Original-Newsgroups: gnu.emacs.help Original-Lines: 40 Original-Injection-Info: reader02.eternal-september.org; posting-host="61b9ef910c9fab9ec8c83f50c88d35d9"; logging-data="7425"; mail-complaints-to="abuse@eternal-september.org"; posting-account="U2FsdGVkX18x+UJMC3ip3M00+itKK7c5e6vxNCyyfx8=" Cancel-Lock: sha1:j38sfmMlX5HP6y+xYaumppGuGP8= sha1:w3ws5LvVN8SjhzqWYWmFm0GmYlM= User-Mail-Address: nsivaram.net@gmail.com Original-Xref: usenet.stanford.edu gnu.emacs.help:222950 X-BeenThere: help-gnu-emacs@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.21 Precedence: list List-Id: Users list for the GNU Emacs text editor List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Errors-To: help-gnu-emacs-bounces+geh-help-gnu-emacs=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Original-Sender: "help-gnu-emacs" Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.help:117071 Archived-At: On Sat, Jun 09 2018,Eli Zaretskii wrote: [snipped 16 lines] > Well, that doesn't really answer my question, sop I'd try to answer > what I think you may be asking. > > . Visiting UTF-8 encoded files should "just work". Thanks. That's reassuring. > . If you want to _create_ UTF-8 encoded files, you will need to > request that explicitly using "C-x RET c" before saving a file. > . Visiting UTF-16 encoded files may require "C-x RET c" before > "C-x C-f". (UTF-16 is what is called "Unicode" on Windows, which > was one reason why I asked my question.) Right, this was what I wanted to know. What to fiddle with to create/edit files in Windows. Thanks, this helps. > . File names are supported even if they include characters not > supported by the current system codepage. How will they render in the buffer then? > . Receiving sub-process output encoded in UTF-8 should work with > programs known to output UTF-8, such as Git; in other cases you may > need to use "C-x RET c" or customize your process-coding-system-alist. > . Beware of passing to programs command-line arguments encoded in > UTF-8: that doesn't work. > > HTH > sivaram --