Subject: Re: bug#22436: read-coding-system uses wrong default when called from write-file

From: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 23 Jan 2016 14:12:20 +0100

Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]> writes:

> Your locale's default encoding, cp1252, cannot encode this character,
> so Emacs asked you to provide an encoding that can, and offered
> chinese-iso-8bit as the default.

While correct, it is a slightly less than helpful default.  Most people
deal (at most) with two charsets: One local, and if not, then Unicode.
(Which would be utf8 on most systems, and possibly ucs16 on Windows, I
dunno.)

So `chinese-iso-8bit' is a surprising default.  Could the default be
improved upon?

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