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default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?

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From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
To: 15803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Cc: handa <at> gnu.org
Subject: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?
Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2013 13:45:32 -0500

Package: emacs
Version: 24.3

Split from http://debbugs.gnu.org/15260

Eli Zaretskii wrote:

> mule-cmds.el calls reset-language-environment, and language/english.el
> calls set-language-info-alist; both have the effect of resetting
> default-file-name-coding-system to latin-1 (!? an interesting
> "default" for a Unicode-era Emacs, perhaps Handa-san could comment why
> we still do that).

I know nothing about this, but eg glib defaults to utf-8, which seems
like a better default to me these days:

https://developer.gnome.org/glib/stable/glib-Character-Set-Conversion.html#file-name-encodings

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