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Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files

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From: Kenichi Handa <handa <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca>
Cc: 13936 <at> debbugs.gnu.org, eliz <at> gnu.org, eggert <at> cs.ucla.edu
Subject: bug#13936: Default to UTF-8 for most Emacs source files
Date: Sat, 06 Apr 2013 00:03:22 +0900

In article <jwvfvz7rv51.fsf-monnier+emacs <at> gnu.org>, Stefan Monnier <monnier <at> iro.umontreal.ca> writes:

> > I thought Handa-san was working on that, and he bumped into some
> > problem he needs to fix, before the infrastructure for this is ready.

> I don't think Handa's work is related.  He's trying to improve the
> performance of Emacs when handling utf-8 files, whereas my request is
> for a change in behavior, regardless of performance.

If the performance is not the problem,

(with-coding-priority '(utf-8)
  (load-file "_FILE_NAME_"))

will work.  And, as I've just fixed the problem and
installed the optimization for ASCII and UTF-8 file reading,
the above code should run faster than before.

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Kenichi Handa
handa <at> gnu.org

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