Subject: bug#57531: 28.1; Character encoding missing for "eo"

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 09:54:44 +0300

> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Sun, 04 Sep 2022 08:32:20 +0200
> 
> On Sep 04 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> 
> >> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> >> Cc: [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> >> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 22:13:31 +0200
> >> 
> >> On Sep 03 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> 
> >> >> From: Andreas Schwab <[email-masked]>
> >> >> Cc: Jonathan Reeve <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked]
> >> >> Date: Sat, 03 Sep 2022 19:32:46 +0200
> >> >> 
> >> >> On Sep 03 2022, Eli Zaretskii wrote:
> >> >> 
> >> >> > Emacs cannot know the system character set unless the system tells
> >> >> > that.  The way to tell that is via the locale's codeset.
> >> >> 
> >> >> (locale-info 'codeset)
> >> >
> >> > We already use that.
> >> 
> >> Why doesn't it work then?
> >
> > It does work.
> 
> If it would work then Emacs would use UTF-8, but it doesn't.

Because it uses Latin-3, as it should.

As already explained, I see absolutely no convincing evidence anywhere
that Esperanto should prefer UTF-8 by default.  If you know of any
authoritative source of such information, please point me to it.