Subject: Re: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files

From: handa <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2013 12:48:51 +0900

In article <[email-masked]>, Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]> writes:

> Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:
> > -  CJK variety: GB($AT*Fx(B,$A?*7"(B), BIG5($(0&x86(B,$(0DeBv(B), JIS($B855$(B,$B3+H/(B), KSC($(Cj*Q((B,$(CKR[!(B)
> > +  CJK variety: GB(元气,开发), BIG5(元氣,開發), JIS(元気,開発), KSC(元氣,開發)

> You cannot do that.  You are throwing away the charset difference which
> is the whole point of the exercise.

Right.  When a file is in some legacy encoding such as
iso-2022-7bit, Emacs attached charset properties to proper
ranges of text, which works as a hint for selecting a proper
font especially for CJK characters.  The same can be said
for etc/tutorials/TUTORIAL.ja.  This file should be shown in
a proper Japanese font even for a user not in Japanese
lang. env.

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Kenichi Handa
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