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: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
Cc: 15803 <at> debbugs.gnu.org
Subject: bug#15803: default-file-name-coding-system: utf-8 better than latin-1 these days?
Date: Fri, 01 Dec 2017 09:54:36 +0200

> From: Glenn Morris <rgm <at> gnu.org>
> 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?
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