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

From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2013 10:43:36 +0100

Paul Eggert <[email-masked]> writes:

> For a file like TUTORIAL.ja, the Local Variables: section
> can specify a preferred charset.  Wouldn't this address the issue for
> non-Japanese users?  Something like this, say:
>
> ;;; Local Variables:
> ;;; coding: utf-8
> ;;; eval: (set-charset-priority 'japanese-jisx0208)

That relies on enable-local-eval.  The default is to query, which is not
a good thing for a tutorial.

Andreas.

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