GNU bug report logs - #15803
default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?

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Package: emacs;

Reported by: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>

Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2013 18:46:01 UTC

Severity: normal

Tags: fixed

Found in version 24.3

Fixed in version 28.1

Done: Lars Ingebrigtsen <larsi <at> gnus.org>

Bug is archived. No further changes may be made.

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From: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>
To: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
Cc: rgm <at> gnu.org, 15803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?
Date: Wed, 09 Sep 2020 18:09:03 +0300

> From: Stefan Kangas <stefan <at> marxist.se>
> Date: Wed, 9 Sep 2020 06:33:11 -0700
> Cc: Eli Zaretskii <eliz <at> gnu.org>, 15803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
> 
> Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org> writes:
> 
> > BTW, it feels very dated to me to have discussion of Windows 9X in the
> > Emacs manual section on file-name-coding.
> 
> Agreed.  Could we move this discussion to the MS Windows FAQ instead?

I don't think the FAQ is the right place for this information.  So no,
please don't move it to the FAQ.

But we could move this to the MS-Windows appendix, leaving a
cross-reference where the text is now.
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