Re: Unicode and text editors

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

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On Monday, December 9th, 2024 at 1:31 AM, Basile Starynkevitch <basile@starynkevitch.net> wrote:

> On Sun, 2024-12-08 at 13:16 +0000, Heime via Users list for the GNU
> Emacs text editor wrote:
> 
> > I am using unicode characters in emacs. What happens when people
> > load the
> > file in a different text editor? Will the characters be illegible?
> 
> 
> 
> I guess you mean Unicode characters with UTF-8 encoding. 

Correct

> I will refer
> to the people mentioned in your question as colleagues (but they could
> be friends or customers or students or authorities or managers). Your
> computer means the computer you are using (probably under Linux) for
> GNU emacs. Their computer or the other computer is the one used by the
> collague.
> 
> I see several possible issues.
> 
> The other computer don't have the required font to display some
> character (like a cyrillic letter, or § ....)
> 
> The other computer (or your colleague) don't know that the file is UTF-
> 8 encoded.
> 
> The other computer don't have any editor.
> 
> the other computer has an editor which does not understand UTF-8
> encoding.
> 
> The other computer has an editor requiring UTF-16 encoding.

Is this becoming the norm?  What about emacs?
 
Does emacs encourage use of unicode characters (UTF-8) in code comments
and documentation?  

> The file has been corrupted during transmission.
> 
> Regards
> 
> NB my open source project is
> https://github.com/RefPerSys/RefPerSys (GPLv3+ inference engine)
> 
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