Subject: Re: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:54:36 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <[email-masked]>
> Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 20:52:17 -0500
> 
> So should the default finally be changed to utf-8?

Perhaps on Posix systems, but not elsewhere.  And if we make the
change, we should make sure building Emacs in a non-ASCII directory
still works.

Btw, why does the default matter so much?  Once Emacs starts up
default-file-name-coding-system on GNU/Linux is set to UTF-8, if the
locale says so.  Is this just an aesthetic issue?