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Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files

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From: help-debbugs <at> gnu.org (GNU bug Tracking System)
To: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
Subject: bug#13936: closed (Re: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs
 source files)
Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2013 01:24:02 +0000

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Your bug report

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

which was filed against the emacs package, has been closed.

The explanation is attached below, along with your original report.
If you require more details, please reply to 13936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: 13936-done <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: Re: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files
Date: Mon, 01 Apr 2013 18:20:12 -0700

I installed the most-recently-proposed patch
as trunk bzr 112210 and am marking this as done.

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From: Paul Eggert <eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu>
To: bug-gnu-emacs <at> gnu.org
Cc: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
Subject: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2013 14:16:47 -0700

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Severity: wishlist
Tags: patch

Attached is a proposed patch to change the encoding to UTF-8 for most Emacs
source files that contain non-ASCII characters.  This shouldn't affect
the Emacs build or maintenance procedures, as Emacs itself can use
either UTF-8 or non-UTF-8 encodings.  Switching to UTF-8 does make it
easier to use non-Emacs tools, such as 'grep -r'.

This patch is a followon to Bug#13880 but is a bit more ambitious as
it affects more files.  Like the patch in Bug#13880, the patch is a
bit tricky to view, since it contains mixed encodings.

A few files remain in non-UTF-8 encodings, for technical reasons; see
admin/notes/unicode.  Perhaps some of these can be converted to UTF-8
some day, but they'll need more work.

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