Subject: bug#7962: 23.2; capitalize letters ISO-8859-1 with diacritic signs in emacs 23.2.1

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 23:19:13 +0200

> Date: Thu, 03 Feb 2011 19:49:22 +0100
> From: Emmanuel Bigler <[email-masked]>
> Cc: 
> 
> However I am reluctant to switch to UTF-8 for all my texts in English,
> German, French, even Icelandic etc... i.e. Western European languages,
> the only ones I'll ever typeset, which are perfectly handled in
> unibyte iso-8859-1.

You seem to assume that going multibyte requires that your files be
encoded in UTF-8.  That simply isn't true.  The files can continue be
encoded in ISO-8859-1 or ISO-8859-15; Emacs will decode them into its
internal representation when you visit the file and encode it back
when you save it.  You lose nothing.